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Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Nov 1997

Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Oct 1997

Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Sep 1997

Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Broadly Speaking - April 22, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1997

Broadly Speaking - April 22, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Broadly Speaking - April Fools' Day, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1997

Broadly Speaking - April Fools' Day, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Broadly Speaking - March 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Mar 1997

Broadly Speaking - March 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.


Terrorism And Legal Competence: A Reader's Opinion, Ibpp Editor Jan 1997

Terrorism And Legal Competence: A Reader's Opinion, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

A reader, a police officer from a Pacific Basin Country, wishing to remain anonymous, reacts to IBPP article "Terrorism and Legal Competence" (V. 1, No. 1, November 8, 1996), discussing that article's treatment of terrorism and versions of legal competency. Religious as well as intolerance are likewise discussed.


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 Jan 1997

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).


Nature Of Rules And The Meaning Of Meaning, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1997

Nature Of Rules And The Meaning Of Meaning, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

This essay addresses two problems in legal theory. What is the nature of rules, especially legal rules? What is the meaning of a legal rule?

My main concern is the relation between these two questions. I inquire whether a sensible view of how rules work commits one to any particular approach to meaning. For this inquiry, I focus on Frederick Schauer's illuminating treatment of rules in Playing by the Rules, which he says is linked to a particular view of meaning. I assert that the linkage is much less tight than he supposes, and that competing theories about meaning are …