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Elucidating Law, Julie Dickson addresses questions concerning the methodology of legal philosophy and advocates that legal philosophers should espouse an 'Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy'. This approach can facilitate legal philosophers' understanding of aspects of the nature of law, without regarding law as inherently morally valuable.
List of contents
- 1: Elucidating Law: Motifs and Motivations
- 2: Legal Philosophy and the Nature of Law: Some Initial Considerations
- 3: Legal Philosophy and the Nature of Law: Some Challenges Considered
- 4: The Questions of Legal Philosophy: Diversity, Development, and Distribution of Emphasis
- 5: Approaching Law: a Constraining Duality and an Attitude of Due Wariness
- 6: Self-Understandings and the Limits of Revisionism
- 7: Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy: The Value of Staged Inquiry
- 8: Continuity and Complementarity in Legal Philosophy
About the author
Julie Dickson is Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. After completing an undergraduate law degree at the University of Glasgow in her native Scotland, and a D. Phil in Philosophy of Law at Balliol College, Oxford, she held lectureships at the University of Leicester and University College London before taking up her current post. Professor Dickson works mainly in general jurisprudence or philosophy of law, and especially on methodological issues such as the criteria of success of legal philosophy.
Summary
In Elucidating Law, Julie Dickson addresses questions concerning the methodology of legal philosophy and advocates that legal philosophers should espouse an 'Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy'. This approach can facilitate legal philosophers' understanding of aspects of the nature of law, without regarding law as inherently morally valuable.
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Elucidating Law has many virtues, but the most attractive is its inclusiveness. Dickson is an optimist about the prospects of legal philosophy.
