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Evaluation and Legal Theory

Julie DicksonLecturer in Law, University College London

ISBN13: 9781841131849
ISBN: 1841131849
Published: June 2001
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print



If Raz and Dworkin disagree over how law should be characterized, how are we, their jurisprudential public, supposed to go about adjudicating between the rival theories which they offer us? To what considerations would those theorists themselves appeal in order to convince us that their accounts of law are accurate and successful? Moreover, what is it that makes an account of law successful? ""Evaluation and Legal Theory"" tackles methodological or meta-theoretical issues such as these, and does so via attempting to answer the question: to what extent, and in what sense, must a legal theorist make value judgements about his data in order to construct a successful theory of law? Dispelling the obfuscatory myth that legal positivism seeks a ""value-free"" account of law, the author attempts to explain and defend Joseph Raz's position that evaluation is essential to successful legal theory. The book does not claim to solve the many mysteries of meta-legal theory but does seek to contribute to and engender rigorous and focused debate on this topic.

Contents:
What's the point of jurisprudence?; introducing the moral evaluation thesis; indirectly evaluative legal theory - meeting Finnis' challenge; Finnis and the moral justification thesis; the beneficial moral consequences thesis and an introduction to Dworkinian methodology; what's the point of law? Dworkinian methodology and the argument from law's function; carrying on the conversation.