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Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Factors, Scott Rempell
The Conceptual Problems Arising From Legal Pluralism, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
The Conceptual Problems Arising From Legal Pluralism, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
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This paper argues that analytical jurisprudence has been insufficiently attentive to three significant puzzles highlighted by the legal pluralist tradition: the existence of commonalities between different types of law, the possibility of a distinction between law and non-law, and the explanatory centrality of the state. I further argue that the resolution of these questions sets the stage for a renewed agenda of analytical jurisprudence and has to be considered in attempts for reconciliation between the academic traditions of analytical jurisprudence and legal pluralism, often called “pluralist jurisprudence.” I also argue that the resolution of these problems affects the empirical, doctrinal, …
Legal Corpus Linguistics And The Half-Empirical Attitude, Anya Bernstein
Legal Corpus Linguistics And The Half-Empirical Attitude, Anya Bernstein
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Legal writers have recently turned to corpus linguistics to interpret legal texts. Corpus linguistics, a social-science methodology, provides a sophisticated way to analyze large data sets of language use. Legal proponents have touted it as giving empirical grounding to claims about ordinary language, which pervade legal interpretation. But legal corpus linguistics cannot deliver on that promise because it ignores the crucial contexts in which legal language is produced, interpreted, and deployed.
First, legal corpus linguistics neglects the relevant legal context—the conditions that give legal language authority. Because of this, legal corpus studies’ evidence about language use perversely obscures and misstates …
Legal Positivism As A Theory Of Law’S Existence: A Comment On Margaret Martin’S "Judging Positivism", Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Legal Positivism As A Theory Of Law’S Existence: A Comment On Margaret Martin’S "Judging Positivism", Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
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This comment critically examines the conception of legal positivism that informs Margaret Martin’s interesting and multilayered challenge against the substance and method of this intellectual tradition. My central claim is that her characterization of the substantive theory of legal positivism sets aside a more fundamental and explanatory prior dimension concerning the positivist’s theory of the existence of legal systems and legal norms. I also argue that her understanding of the positivist’s descriptive methodology as a nonnormative project is too demanding and overlooks both the relationships between law and morality recognized by contemporary legal positivists and the pivotal distinction between internal …
Reframing Law's Domain: Narrative, Rhetoric, And The Forms Of Legal Rules, Stephen Paskey
Reframing Law's Domain: Narrative, Rhetoric, And The Forms Of Legal Rules, Stephen Paskey
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Legal scholars typically understand law as a system of determinate rules grounded in logic. And in the public sphere, textualist judges and others often claim that judges should not "make" law, arguing instead that a judge's role is simply to find the meaning inherent in law's language. This essay offers a different understanding of both the structure of legal rules and the role of judges. Building on Caroline Levine's claim that texts have multiple ordering principles, the essay argues that legal rules simultaneously have three overlapping forms, none of which is dominant: not only the form of conditional, "if-then" logic, …
Legal Pluralism And Analytical Jurisprudence: An Inapposite Contrast, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Legal Pluralism And Analytical Jurisprudence: An Inapposite Contrast, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
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The intellectual tradition of legal pluralism characterizes itself by way of a contrast to legal centralism or monism. Self-styled pluralists typically attribute centralist and monist views to mainstream theories of law, which I call here analytical jurisprudence. This article argues that the pluralist foundational contrast with analytical jurisprudence suffers from three recurrent defects. First, the pluralist opposition to analytical jurisprudence conflates conceptual questions with empirical, doctrinal, and politico-moral inquiries. Second, pluralists misattribute to analytical jurisprudents an equation between law and state that they do not hold and have the resources to reject. Third, pluralists address the conceptual problems of legal …
Rules, Standards, And Such, Kevin M. Clermont
Rules, Standards, And Such, Kevin M. Clermont
Buffalo Law Review
This Article aims to create a complete typology of the forms of decisional law. Distinguishing “rules” from “standards” is the most commonly attempted jurisprudential line, roughly drawn between nonvague and vague. But no agreement exists on the dimension along which the rule/standard terminology lies, or on where the dividing line on the continuum lies. Thus, classifying in terms of vagueness is itself vague. Ultimately it does not aid legal actors in formulating or applying the law. The classification works best as an evocative image.
A clearer distinction would be useful in formulating and applying the law. For the law-applier, it …
Causation, Legal History, And Legal Doctrine, Charles Barzun
Causation, Legal History, And Legal Doctrine, Charles Barzun
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Writing The Social History Of Legal Doctrine, Cynthia Nicoletti
Writing The Social History Of Legal Doctrine, Cynthia Nicoletti
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Absences As Material For Intellectual Historical Study, John Henry Schlegel
On Absences As Material For Intellectual Historical Study, John Henry Schlegel
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History, Mark Fenster
Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History, Mark Fenster
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why Law Matters For Our Obligations, Guyora Binder
Why Law Matters For Our Obligations, Guyora Binder
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Political philosophers have long debated the problem of political and legal obligation: how the existence of a political community and its laws can affect our obligations. This paper applies Alon Harel’s argument that law has intrinsic value to this venerable problem. It interprets Harel’s argument as a Kantian claim that law enables us to treat our fellows with the respect they deserve, by requiring us not only to treat them decently, but to recognize decent treatment as their right.
How Money For Legal Scholarship Disadvantages Feminism, Martha T. Mccluskey
How Money For Legal Scholarship Disadvantages Feminism, Martha T. Mccluskey
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A dramatic infusion of outside money has shaped legal theory over the last several decades, largely to the detriment of feminist theory. Nonetheless, the pervasive influence of this funding is largely ignored in scholarly discussions of legal theory. This denial helps reinforce the marginal position of feminist scholarship and of women in legal theory. Conservative activists and funders have understood the central role of developing community culture and institutions, and have helped shift the prevailing framework for discussion of many questions of theory and policy through substantial investments in law-and-economics centers and in the Federalist Society. Comparing the institutional resources …
Thinking With Wolves: Left Legal Theory After The Right's Rise (Review Essay), Martha T. Mccluskey
Thinking With Wolves: Left Legal Theory After The Right's Rise (Review Essay), Martha T. Mccluskey
Book Reviews
Reviewing Wendy Brown & Janet Halley, Left Legalism/Left Critique (2001).
Left legal theory is in crisis. This crisis reflects a broader problem of contemporary U.S. politics: the lack of grand ideas capable of mobilizing meaningful opposition to the triumph of the political right. Right-wing legal theory has contributed to that dramatic political change by promoting ideas questioning the foundations of the twentieth century liberal welfare and regulatory state.
This review essay analyzes a rare recent attempt to revive left legal theory in the face of the right's triumph: the anthology Left Legalism/Left Critique edited by Wendy Brown and Janet Halley …
Does Duncan Kennedy Wear Boxers Or Briefs? Does Richard Posner Ever Sleep? Writing About Jurisprudence, High Culture And The History Of Intellectuals (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
Does Duncan Kennedy Wear Boxers Or Briefs? Does Richard Posner Ever Sleep? Writing About Jurisprudence, High Culture And The History Of Intellectuals (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
Reviewing Neil Duxbury, Patterns of American Jurisprudence(1995).
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
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Addressing the future of radical politics at the end of the cold war, this article offers a reconstruction of radical theory around the goal of enabling collaborative self-realization through participatory democratic politics. It offers an interpretation of the radical tradition as defined by a view of human nature as a cultural artifact, and a conception of liberation as the self-conscious transformation of human nature. It proceeds to critique radical theory’s traditional focus on revolution as the means of radical transformation. Distinguishing instrumental and self-expressive conceptions of transformation it critiques revolutionary processes as tending to reproduce instrumental culture. It offers democratic …
The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Justiciability And Theories Of Judicial Review: A Remote Relationship, Lee A. Albert
Justiciability And Theories Of Judicial Review: A Remote Relationship, Lee A. Albert
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Towards A Subjective Theory Of Law: Some Legal Implications Of Existentialism, Barry Bassis
Towards A Subjective Theory Of Law: Some Legal Implications Of Existentialism, Barry Bassis
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Some Considerations On The Existential Force Of Roman Law In The Early History Of The United States, Mitchell Franklin
Some Considerations On The Existential Force Of Roman Law In The Early History Of The United States, Mitchell Franklin
Buffalo Law Review
Paper prepared for the II Congreso interamericano de derecho romano of the Seminario de derecho romano de la facultad de derecho de la Universitad nacional autónoma de México, July 17-21, 1972, in coordination with, the Associación interamericana de derecho romano, with seat at the Universidad de Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brasil.
Jeremy Bentham's Codification Proposals And Some Remarks On Their Place In History, Terry Difilippo
Jeremy Bentham's Codification Proposals And Some Remarks On Their Place In History, Terry Difilippo
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Influence Of Bentham's Philosophy Of Law On The Early Nineteenth Century Codification Movement In The United States, George M. Hezel
The Influence Of Bentham's Philosophy Of Law On The Early Nineteenth Century Codification Movement In The United States, George M. Hezel
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Some Speculation About Artificial Intelligence And Legal Reasoning, Bruce G. Buchanan, Thomas E. Headrick
Some Speculation About Artificial Intelligence And Legal Reasoning, Bruce G. Buchanan, Thomas E. Headrick
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No abstract provided.