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Beliefs And Probabilities: The Errors That Remain Are Mine Alone, Kevin M. Clermont
Beliefs And Probabilities: The Errors That Remain Are Mine Alone, Kevin M. Clermont
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Imagine that the preface to a professor’s book implicitly asserts that all the propositions in the rest of his or her book are true, but explicitly acknowledges that experience would suggest some errors remain among those propositions. The prof thereby seems paradoxically to believe inconsistent statements. But in fact this famous preface paradox is an illusion. The first statement is a belief reflecting epistemic uncertainty, while the second is a probabilistic statement about aleatory uncertainty. If one were to convert the probability into a belief, one would see that the author rationally holds perfectly consistent beliefs.
Likewise the lottery paradox …
The Importance Of 'The Gap', Emily Sherwin
The Importance Of 'The Gap', Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
One of the central dilemmas of law is what Larry Alexander has called "the gap:" general, determinate rules have significant benefits from the forward-looking perspective of a lawmaker, but generate outcomes that appear wrong from the perspective of individual actors. In this 25-year retrospective of Alexander's initial article on the gap, I examine a possible way out of the dilemma of the gap, and conclude that it does not work.
Philosophy Of Law: Reply To Critics, Andrei Marmor
Philosophy Of Law: Reply To Critics, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The author addresses issues raised by commentators on his book, Philosophy of Law (2011).
Meaning And Belief In Constitutional Interpretation, Andrei Marmor
Meaning And Belief In Constitutional Interpretation, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The distinction between a concept and its different conceptions plays a prominent role in debates about constitutional interpretation. Proponents of a dynamic reading of the Constitution-espousing interpretation of constitutional concepts according to their contemporary understandings typically rely on the idea that the Constitution entrenches only the general concepts it deploys, without authoritatively favoring any particular conception of them-specifically, without favoring the particular conception of the relevant concept that the framers of the Constitution may have had in mind. Originalists argue, to the contrary, that fidelity to the Constitution requires an understanding of its provisions according to the particular conception of …
Legal Positivism: Still Descriptive And Morally Neutral, Andrei Marmor
Legal Positivism: Still Descriptive And Morally Neutral, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
It has become increasingly popular to argue that legal positivism is actually a normative theory, and that it cannot be purely descriptive and morally neutral as H.L.A. Hart has suggested. This article purports to disprove this line of thought. It argues that legal positivism is best understood as a descriptive, morally neutral, theory about the nature of law. The article distinguishes between five possible views about the relations between normative claims and legal positivism, arguing that some of them are not at odds with Hart’s thesis about the nature of jurisprudence, while the others are wrong, both as expositions of …
The Immorality Of Textualism, Andrei Marmor
The Immorality Of Textualism, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study In Legal Theory, Robert S. Summers
On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study In Legal Theory, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The four theses of this paper are: (1) that an appropriate organizational form is used to design, define, and organize a functional unit of a legal system, (2) that the functional units of a legal system, contrary to the emphasis in Hart and Kelsen, consist of far more than rules, and include institutions, interpretive and other methodologies, sanctions and remedies, and more, (3) that frontal and systematic study of the forms of these units is a major avenue for advancing understanding of them as duly organized wholes, and, (4) that such study reveals that much credit is due these forms, …
Do We Have A Right To Common Goods?, Andrei Marmor
Do We Have A Right To Common Goods?, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Individuals have rights. I will assume that this means that individuals have interests which are important enough to justify the imposition of duties on others in order to secure those interests. Groups of individuals, such as nations or ethnic minorities, plausibly have rights as well. Groups of individuals may have group interests appropriately protected by the imposition of duties on others, typically, on governments, or on other larger political entities. My concern in this essay is with the question of what individuals or groups may have a right to. In particular I want to explore the question of whether people …
Legal Institutions In Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers
Legal Institutions In Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton
Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Liberalism, Radicalism, And Legal Scholarship, Steven H. Shiffrin
Liberalism, Radicalism, And Legal Scholarship, Steven H. Shiffrin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
On Identifying And Reconstructing A General Legal Theory – Some Thoughts Prompted By Professor Moore’S Critique, Robert S. Summers
On Identifying And Reconstructing A General Legal Theory – Some Thoughts Prompted By Professor Moore’S Critique, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pragmatic Instrumentalism In Twentieth Century American Legal Thought—A Synthesis And Critique Of Our Dominant General Theory About Law And Its Use, Robert S. Summers
Pragmatic Instrumentalism In Twentieth Century American Legal Thought—A Synthesis And Critique Of Our Dominant General Theory About Law And Its Use, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"Is" And "Ought" In Legal Philosophy, Robert S. Summers
"Is" And "Ought" In Legal Philosophy, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Logic In The Law, Robert S. Summers
Logic In The Law, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
H.L.A. Hart On Justice, Robert S. Summers
H.L.A. Hart On Justice, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Note On Symbolic Logic And The Law, Robert S. Summers
A Note On Symbolic Logic And The Law, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.