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Problems In American Legal Methodology, Stephen Utz
Problems In American Legal Methodology, Stephen Utz
Stephen Gerard Utz
The obsession of common-law scholars and jurists with analogy, the apparent bedrock of stare decisis, has obscured our vision of the actually quite varied patterns of legal reasoning, even as we ourselves practice it. The problem is that analogy is too capacious a concept to be used effectively in defining a single sort of inference or analysis. This article advocates a more discriminating use of the concept of analogy, drawing on German methodological thought.
Le Concept Hartien D’Obligation Juridique, Stephen Utz
Le Concept Hartien D’Obligation Juridique, Stephen Utz
Stephen Gerard Utz
La tentative de H. L. A. Hart à démontrer qu’on peut distinguer des systèmes
juridiques d’autres assemblages de règles sans recourir aux normes morales et,
ainsi de réfuter la doctrine de la loi naturelle, semble supposer la dichotomie fait/
valeur dans sa formulation la plus extrême. Dans le cadre de son projet, Hart a
proposé une vue de l’obligation juridique qui a exercé une influence même sur
ceux qui ont des doutes quant au projet principal de Hart. Ce rapport essaie
de soutenir qu’une version moins extrême de la dichotomie fait/valeur aurait
dispensé Hart de défendre une thèse de l’obligation …
Associative Obligation And Law's Authority, Stephen Utz
Associative Obligation And Law's Authority, Stephen Utz
Stephen Gerard Utz
Most attempts to explicate the authority of law dismiss the possible
analogy of such authority with the less pretentious authority of parents, professional
bodies, academic faculties, and other similar groups. This article explores that
analogy, drawing on discussions of related themes by Ronald Dworkin and others.
If agents are sometimes bound without their consent by such limited authority, the
authority of law, though broader, may have similar features. Law’s claim to peremp-
tory obedience would fail, but the more modest account could still satisfy some long
recognized desiderata.