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Description
In this reprint of Law’s Empire, Ronald Dworkin reflects on the nature of the law, its given authority, its application in democracy, the prominent role of interpretation in judgment, and the relations of lawmakers and lawgivers to the community on whose behalf they pronounce. For that community, Law’s Empire provides a judicious and coherent introduction to the place of law in our lives.
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Contents
One - What Is Law?
• Why it Matters
• Disagreement about Law
• The Plain-Fact View
• A Threshold Objection
• The Real World
• Semantic Theories of Law
• The Real Argument for Semantic Theories
Two - Interpretive Concepts
• The Semantic Sting
• An Imaginary Example
• A First Look at Interpretation
• Interpretation and Author's Intention
• Art and the Nature of Intention
• Intentions and Practices
• Stages of Interpretation
• Philosophers of Courtesy
• A Digression: Justice
• Skepticism about Interpretation
Three - Jurisprudence, Revisited
• A New Picture
• Concepts and Conceptions of Law
• Skeptical Conceptions and Wicked Law
• Grounds and Force of Law
Four - Conventionalism
• Its Structure
• Its Appeal
• Legal Conventions
• Two Kinds of Conventionalism
• Does Conventionalism Fit Our Practice?
• Does Conventionalism Justify Our Practice?
Five - Pragmatism and Personification
• A Skeptical Conception
• Does Pragmatism Fit?
• Law without Rights
• The Claims of Integrity
• Community Personified
Six - Integrity
• Agenda
• Does Integrity Fit?
• Is Integrity Attractive?
• The Puzzle of Legitimacy
• Obligations of Community
• Fraternity and Political Community
• Untidy Endnotes
Seven - Integrity in Law
• A Large View
• The Chain of Law
• Law: The Question of Emotional Damages
• A Provisional Summary
• Some Familiar Objections
• Skepticism in Law
Eight - The Common Law
• The Economic Interpretation
• Complexities
• The Question of Justice
• The Utilitarian Duty The Egalitarian Interpretation
• Equality and Comparative Cost
• Private People and Public Bodies
Nine - Statutes
• Legislative Intention
• Speaker's Meaning Convictions
• Hercules' Method
• Legislative History
• Statutes over Time
• When is the Language Clear?
Ten - The Constitution
• Is Constitutional Law Built on a Mistake?
• Liberals and Conservatives
• Historicism
• Passivism
• Hercules on Olympus
• Theories of Racial Equality
• Deciding Brown
• Deciding Bakke
• Is Hercules a Tyrant?
Eleven - Law Beyond Law
• Law Works itself Pure
• Law's Dreams
• Epilogue: What is Law?
Notes
Index
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Author Details
Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence-elect, University College, London, Professor of Law, New York University
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