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Kennedy's Legacy: A Principled Justice, Mitchell N. Berman, David Peters Jan 2019

Kennedy's Legacy: A Principled Justice, Mitchell N. Berman, David Peters

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After three decades on the Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy remains its most widely maligned member. Concentrating on his constitutional jurisprudence, critics from across the ideological spectrum have derided Justice Kennedy as “a self-aggrandizing turncoat,” “an unprincipled weathervane,” and, succinctly, “America’s worst Justice.” We believe that Kennedy is not as bereft of a constitutional theory as common wisdom maintains. To the contrary, this Article argues, his constitutional decisionmaking reflects a genuine grasp (less than perfect, more than rudimentary) of a coherent and, we think, compelling theory of constitutional law—the account, more or less, that one of has introduced in other work …


The Legacy Of Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013): A Legal Theory And Methodology For Hedgehogs, Hercules, And One Right Answers, Imer Flores Dec 2014

The Legacy Of Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013): A Legal Theory And Methodology For Hedgehogs, Hercules, And One Right Answers, Imer Flores

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this paper the author addresses Ronald Dworkin’s work and assesses his legacy to legal, moral and political philosophy. And so, considers among its merits having developed an original legal theory with its distinctive methodology, which not only has transcended the Natural Law and Legal Positivism dichotomy, but also has reintegrated law into a branch of political morality and defended as a corollary the one right answer thesis. Hence, commences by identifying the dworkininan challenge; continues by introducing some basic definitions and distinctions between jurisprudence, legal philosophy (or philosophy of law) and legal theory (or theory of law), on the …


Secular Fundamentalism, Paul F. Campos Jan 1994

Secular Fundamentalism, Paul F. Campos

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That Obscure Object Of Desire: Hermeneutics And The Autonomous Legal Text, Paul Campos Jan 1993

That Obscure Object Of Desire: Hermeneutics And The Autonomous Legal Text, Paul Campos

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"Le Hors De Texte, C'Est Moi": The Politics Of Form And The Domestication Of Deconstruction, Pierre Schlag Jan 1990

"Le Hors De Texte, C'Est Moi": The Politics Of Form And The Domestication Of Deconstruction, Pierre Schlag

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Missing Pieces: A Cognitive Approach To Law, Pierre Schlag Jan 1989

Missing Pieces: A Cognitive Approach To Law, Pierre Schlag

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