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Patterson Dennis

Wittgenstein and Law - Aldershot Ashgate 2004 - 475p xi - Philosophers and Law .

Table of contents:
What it means to follow a rule of law, Philip Bobbitt;
Normativity and objectivity in law, Dennis Patterson;
Understanding disagreement, the root issue of jurisprudence: applying Wittgenstein to positivism, critical theory and judging, Thomas Morawetz;
The activity of being a lawyer: the imaginative pursuit of implications and possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele;
Constitutional adjudication as a craft-bound excellence, Douglas Lind;
Finding Wittgenstein at the core of the rule of recognition, Anthony J. Sebok;
Focusing the law: what legal interpretation is not, Martin Stone; No easy cases?, Andrei Marmor; Ronald Dworkin's Right Answers Thesis through the lens of Wittgenstein, Louis E. Wolcher; The application (and mis-application) of Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations to legal theory, Brian Bix;
Linguistic indeterminacy and the rule of law: on the perils of misunderstanding Wittgenstein, Christian Zapf and Eben Moglen;
Wittgenstein, realism and CLS: undermining rule scepticism, Scott Landers;
Name index.


ISBN: 075462255X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law & Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 340.1 PAT