JURISPRUDENCE: THEORY AND CONTEXT. Second Edition BRIAN BIX

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1 JURISPRUDENCE: THEORY AND CONTEXT Second Edition BRIAN BIX London Sweet & Maxwell 1999

2 Contents Preface to the Second Edition Why Jurisprudence? The Selection of Topics vii viii ix PART A Legal Theory: Problems and Possibilities 1 Chapter One: Overview, Purpose and Methodology 3 Questions and Answers in Jurisprudence 3 Descriptive Theory 4 Transforming the Question 5 To What Extent is it Legal Theory? 7 8 Chapter Two: Conceptual Questions and Jurisprudence 9 The Possibility of General Jurisprudence 10 How Conceptual Theories Differ 12 Alternative Purposes 17 Conceptual Analysis and Naturalism 23 Boundary Lines in Law 25 Conclusion PART B Individual Theories About the Nature of Law 29 Chapter Three: H.L.A. Hart and Legal Positivism 31 An Overview of Legal Positivism 31 Summary of Hart's Position 33 The Rule of Recognition 36 The Internal Aspect of Rules (and of Law) 37 Open Texture 40 The Minimum Content of Natural Law 43 Later Developments 44 Non-Normative Approaches Chapter Four: Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law 51 The Pure Theory of Law 52 Reduction and Legal Theory 55

3 XÜ CONTENTS Hart v. Kelsen On the Nature of Norms Chapter Five: Natural Law Theory and John Finnis Traditional Natural Law Theory Medieval and Renaissance Theorists John Finnis Other Directions Chapter Six: Understanding Lon Füller A Second Kind of Natural Law Theory Fuller's Approach Füller and Legal Process Chapter Seven: Ronald Dworkin's Interpretive Approach Earlier Writings Constructive Interpretation Right Answers Dworkin v. Hart Debunking Questions PART C Themes and Principles Chapter Eight: Justice John Rawls and Social Contract Theory Rawls' Two Principles Rawls' Later Modifications Robert Nozick and Libertarianism Michael Sandel, Communitarianism and Civic Republicanism Feminist Critiques Chapter Nine: Punishment Retribution "Making Society Better": Consequentialism/Utilitarianism Other Objectives Chapter Ten: Rights and Rights Talk Hohfeld's Analysis Other Topics Chapter Eleven: Will and Reason Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory

4 CONTENTS xiü Social Contracts and Economic Analysis Chapter Twelve: Authority, Finality and Mistake Chapter Thirteen: Common Law Reasoning and Precedent Chapter Fourteen: Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Intentions 139 Legislative Intention 139 "Piain Meaning" Chapter Fifteen: Legal Enforcement of Morality 145 Dividing Lines 145 Topics 146 Hartv. Devlin 147 A New Start Chapter Sixteen: The Obligation to Obey the Law 155 Obligation and Consent 156 Other Approaches 15 7 The Argument Against a General Moral Obligation to Obey 159 Connections PART D Modern Perspectives on Legal Theory 163 Chapter Seventeen: American Legal Realism 165 The Target: Formalism 167 Realism and Legal Analysis 168 Realism and the Courts 171 An Overview and PostScript Chapter Eighteen: Economic Analysis of Law 177 In Search of Consensus 178 Ronald Coase 183 Description and Analysis 18 7 Economics and Justice 189 Game Theory 192 Public Choice Theory 194 Other Variations 196 The Limits of Law and Economics

5 xiv CONTENTS Chapter Nineteen: Modern Critical Perspectives Critical Legal Studies Outsider Jurisprudence Feminist Legal Theory Critical Race Theory Chapter Twenty: Law and Literature Interpretation and Constraint Critics Miscellaneous Connections Chapter Twenty One: Pragmatism and Postmodernism Pragmatism Postmodernism Bibliography List of Cases Index