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Hallows Lecture: Complexity And Contradiction In American Law, Gerard E. Lynch
Hallows Lecture: Complexity And Contradiction In American Law, Gerard E. Lynch
Marquette Law Review
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The Conceptions Of Self-Evidence In The Finnis Reconstruction Of Natural Law, Kevin P. Lee
The Conceptions Of Self-Evidence In The Finnis Reconstruction Of Natural Law, Kevin P. Lee
St. Mary's Law Journal
Finnis claims that his theory proceeds from seven basic principles of practical reason that are self-evidently true. While much has been written about the claim of self-evidence, this article considers it in relation to the rigorous claims of logic and mathematics. It argues that when considered in this light, Finnis equivocates in his use of the concept of self-evidence between the realist Thomistic conception and a purely formal, modern symbolic conception. Given his respect for the modern positivist separation of fact and value, the realism of the Thomistic conception cannot be the foundation for the natural law as Finnis would …
The Rule Of Law As An Institutional Ideal, Gianluigi Palombella
The Rule Of Law As An Institutional Ideal, Gianluigi Palombella
Gianluigi Palombella
This article aims at offering an innovative interpretation of the potentialities of the "rule of law" for the XXI Century. It goes beyond current uses and the dispute between formal and substantive conceptions, by reaching the roots of the institutional ideal. Also through historical reconstruction and comparative analysis, the core of the rule of law appears to be a peculiar notion, showing a special objective that the law is asked to achieve, on a legal plane, largely independent of political instrumentalism. The normative meaning is elaborated on and construed around the notions of institutional equilibrium, non domination and "duality" of …
Rights As Norms And As Ends, Gianluigi Palombella
Rights As Norms And As Ends, Gianluigi Palombella
Gianluigi Palombella
This article considers the narratives of law through the lens of the form-substance devide. Different legal theories have provided for opposite definitions of law, legal rules and individual rights, enhancing their identity as due to some substantive content or, on the contrary, to some formal-functional features. The form-substance antinomy reflects both institutional and theoretical reasons. It bears down on the relations envisaged among rights, norms and ends. Different conceptions of rights are best understood as a special articulation of those three terms, and offer different patterns for rights, depending on their relation-opposition with collective ends, ethical values, legislation. The following …
Reasons For Justice, Rights And Future Generations, Gianluigi Palombella
Reasons For Justice, Rights And Future Generations, Gianluigi Palombella
Gianluigi Palombella
This article focuses on some very "fundamental threats" to future generations' leaving, and considers whether most essential interests of future persons not to be harmed can be construed as rights, and in particular as human rights, as much as present persons'. The framework refers essentially to a conceptual grammar of justice. Moreover, it is suggested to articulate rights through the lens of "disposability" and "non-disposability" principles. Finally, the article shows the reasons for separating what we owe to future persons under the challenge of those threats for humanity, i.e. a matter of justice, from our right to hand down our …
The Quest To Reprogram Cultural Software: A Hermeneutical Response To Jack Balkin's Theory Of Ideology And Critique, Francis J. Mootz Iii
The Quest To Reprogram Cultural Software: A Hermeneutical Response To Jack Balkin's Theory Of Ideology And Critique, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Scholarly Works
Critical theory has lost the self-assurance that defined the heady days of Marxist economics and Freudian psychoanalysis. In his famous debate with Hans-Georg Gadamer thirty years ago, Jürgen Habermas argued that critical theory was a necessary corrective to the quiescence and conventionalism that followed from Gadamer's hermeneutic perspective. As the 1960s unfolded, the second generation of the Frankfurt School appeared poised to bring sophisticated techniques of social criticism to bear on the emerging postindustrialist system of global capitalism. But the promise of critical theory failed to materialize. Today, Habermas plays the role of the aging lion who refuses to accept …
Rhetoric, Pragmatism And The Interdisciplinary Turn In Legal Criticism -- A Study Of Altruistic Judicial Argument, Gene R. Shreve
Rhetoric, Pragmatism And The Interdisciplinary Turn In Legal Criticism -- A Study Of Altruistic Judicial Argument, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Integrative Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Integrative Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Editorial Note: The following paper was originally presented in Mexico City on December 10, 1975, in a symposium honoring Professor Emeritus Luis Recasens Siches of the National University of Mexico.
Analytic Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Analytic Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
From Legal Theory To Integrative Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
From Legal Theory To Integrative Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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.
Gustav Radbruch, Wolfgang Friedmann
Gustav Radbruch, Wolfgang Friedmann
Vanderbilt Law Review
As recently as the end of the last World War the name and work of Gustav Radbruch were virtually unknown in the Anglo-American legal world. In 1938 Roscoe Pound, in his encyclopedic survey, "Fifty Years of Jurisprudence," had given a concise account of Radbruch's legal philosophy in the context of his section on "neo-idealism." In 1944 Anton Hermann Chroust wrote a penetrating analysis of Radbruch's philosophy of law, and about the same time the first edition of the present writer's Legal Theory, published on the other side of the Atlantic, included Gustav Radbruch in the survey of major legal philosophers. …
Reason And Reality In Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Reason And Reality In Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Present Position Of Jurisprudence In The United States, Jerome Hall
The Present Position Of Jurisprudence In The United States, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Challenge Of Jurisprudence: To Build A Science And Philosophy Of Law, Jerome Hall
The Challenge Of Jurisprudence: To Build A Science And Philosophy Of Law, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Cohen, M. R., Reason And Law, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Cohen, M. R., Reason And Law, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Ross, A., Towards A Realistic Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Ross, A., Towards A Realistic Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Concerning The Nature Of Positive Law, Jerome Hall
Concerning The Nature Of Positive Law, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Note On Samuel Pufendorf, Anton-Hermann Chroust
A Note On Samuel Pufendorf, Anton-Hermann Chroust
Vanderbilt Law Review
The work of Samuel Pufendorf was certainly the outstanding influence on continental legal philosophy during the second half of the seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth centuries. From his work comes the supposedly authoritative notion that scientific natural law and, hence, true legal philosophy as such, began with Hugo Grotius. What he actually meant to say was that Hugo Grotius had secularized the natural law, that is, he had divorced it from moral theology and put it on a non-theological--and, we may surmise--on a non-ethical basis.
Book Review. Radin, M., Law As Logic And Experience, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Radin, M., Law As Logic And Experience, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Scott, J. B., Law, The State And The International Community, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Scott, J. B., Law, The State And The International Community, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.