Full Description
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year, leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloqium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice.
Law and Philosophy, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and philosophy. It includes studies examining the themes of the nature of law; and interactions between State, the citizen, and the law.
Contents
Preface ; I THE NATURE OF LAW ; 1. Reconsidering a Dogma: Conceptual Analysis, the Naturalistic Turn, and Legal Philosophy ; 2. Six Paths to Vertigo-free Legal Theory ; 3. Monism, Interpretivism and the Law's Aim ; 4. Moral Evaluation and Conceptual Analysis in Jurisprudential Methodology ; 5. Objectivity and Value: Legal Arguments and the Fallibility of Judges ; 6. Towards an Inferential Semantics in Jurisprudence ; 7. An Epistemic Account of the Internal Point of View ; 8. Antigone and the Nature of Law ; II STATE, CITIZEN, AND THE LAW ; 9. The Moral Is: States Make Laws ; 10. The Attack on Liberalism ; 11. Moral Reflections on the Responsibilities of Soldiers: the Clue to Devising a Legal Definition of Terrorism ; 12. Criminal Responsibility and Public Reason ; 13. The Educative Function of Law ; 14. Protest and Punishment: The Dialogue between Civil Disobedients and the Law ; 15. Apology and Reparation in a Multicultural State ; 16. Contracts, Promises, and the Demands of Moral Agency ; 17. Number and Government
