New Waves in Philosophy of Law

by Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

A collection of 11 cutting-edge essays by leading young scholars, challenging long-held assumptions and offering new research paradigms in Philosophy of Law - in five parts 1) methodology/metatheory; 2) reasoning/evaluating; 3) values/the moral life; 4) institutions/the social life; and 5) the global/international dimension.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230316645
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/15/2011
Series:	New Waves in Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	285
File size:	374 KB

About the Author

AMALIA AMAYA Institute for Philosophical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2008 MATHILDE COHEN Fellow at Columbia Law School, USA, and a member of the Centre de Théorie et d'Analyse du Droit, CNRS, France JONATHAN CROWE Senior Lecturer in the T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia SYLVIE DELACROIXLecturer at University College London (jurisprudence, and law and ethics) and the director of the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law, London, UK MICHAEL GIUDICE Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Faculty Associate at the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, Canada DAN PRIEL Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick School of Law, UK; in 2010-11 he is Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada NICOLE ROUGHAN University Temporary Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she teaches jurisprudence and constitutional law STEFAN SCIARAFFA Assistant Professor with the Philosophy Department at McMaster University, Canada SUNDRAM SOOSAY Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore BAS VAN DER VOSSEN Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA LORENZO ZUCCA Lecturer in Law at King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Del Mar PART I: METHODOLOGY AND METATHEORY Rediscovering Fuller and Llewellyn: Law as Custom and Process; S.Soosay Analytical Jurisprudence and Contingency; M.Giudice Jurisprudence and Psychology; D.Priel PART II: REASONING AND EVALUATING Pre-Reflective Law; J.Crowe Virtue and Reason in Law; A.Amaya PART III: VALUES AND THE MORAL LIFE Making Law Bind: Legal Normativity as a Dynamic Concept; S.Delacroix Tolerance or Toleration? How to Deal with Religious Conflicts in Europe; L.Zucca PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND THE SOCIAL LIFE The Social Epistemology of Public Institutions; M.Cohen Two Perspectives on the Requirements of a Practice; S.Sciaraffa PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL DIMENSION Legitimacy and Multi-Level Governance; B. van der Vossen The Relative Authority of Law – A Contribution to 'Pluralist Jurisprudence'; N.Roughan Index

Editorial Reviews

' New Waves in Philosophy of Law brings together some of the most promising younger scholars addressing many of the most pressing problems in the field. Those looking for fresh insights on current issues in legal philosophy should look no further.' - Thom Brooks, Newcastle University, UK

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