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A Swindle With Big Words And Virtues?: Leiter On Dworkin And "Nonsense" Jurisprudence, Timothy J. Stostad
A Swindle With Big Words And Virtues?: Leiter On Dworkin And "Nonsense" Jurisprudence, Timothy J. Stostad
Timothy J. Stostad
In a recent essay, Professor Brian Leiter argues that the jurisprudence of Professor Ronald Dworkin, which Leiter calls “Moralist” jurisprudence, is neither “relevant [nor] illuminating when it comes to law and adjudication.” Exponents of such jurisprudence, Leiter argues, credulously attend to the articulated doctrinal rationales offered by judges as grounds for their decisions. “Realists,” by contrast, recognize that certain nonlegal factors better predict patterns of judicial decision making than do doctrinal rationales. According to Leiter, it follows from the fact that nonlegal factors predict and presumably influence judicial decisions, that attention to judges’ stated rationales is largely a mistake. Here, …
A Swindle With Big Words And Virtues?: Leiter On Dworkin And "Nonsense Jurisprudence", Timothy J. Stostad
A Swindle With Big Words And Virtues?: Leiter On Dworkin And "Nonsense Jurisprudence", Timothy J. Stostad
Timothy J. Stostad
In a recent essay, Professor Brian Leiter argues that the jurisprudence of Professor Ronald Dworkin, which Leiter calls “Moralist” jurisprudence, is neither “relevant [nor] illuminating when it comes to law and adjudication.” Exponents of such jurisprudence, Leiter argues, credulously attend to the articulated doctrinal rationales offered by judges as grounds for their decisions. “Realists,” by contrast, recognize that certain nonlegal factors better predict patterns of judicial decision making than do doctrinal rationales. According to Leiter, it follows from the fact that nonlegal factors predict and presumably influence judicial decisions, that attention to judges’ stated rationales is largely a mistake. Here, …