Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 3

Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.

List of contents

• 1: Kevin Toh: Plan-Attitudes, Plan-Contents, and Bootstrapping: Some Thoughts on the Planning Theory of Law


• 2: Stephen Finlay and David Plunkett: Quasi-Expressivism about Statements of Law: A Hartian Theory


• 3: Liam Murphy: The Normative Force of Law: Individuals and States


• 4: Rae Langton: The Authority of Hate Speech


• 5: James Edwards: An Instrumental Legal Moralism


• 6: Richard Holton: Crime as Prime


• 7: Victor Tadros: Uncertainties of War

About the author

John Gardner is Professor of Law and Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Leslie Green is Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago.

Summary

Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.

Product details

• Authors: John (Professor of Law and Philosophy Gardner
• Assisted by: John Gardner (Editor), John (Professor of Law and Philosophy Gardner (Editor), Leslie Green (Editor), Leslie (Professor of the Philosophy of Law Green (Editor), Green Leslie (Editor), Brian Leiter (Editor), Brian (Professor of Jurisprudence Leiter (Editor), Leiter Brian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780198828174
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882817-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law; Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law; Oxford Studies in Philosophy o
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / Jurisprudence, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law