Elucidating Law Dickson Julie Professor of Legal Philosophy University of Oxford
Elucidating Law Dickson Julie Professor of Legal Philosophy University of Oxford What are the aims of legal philosophy? How should legal philosophers approach and engage with their subject-matter,…
Specifikacia Elucidating Law Dickson Julie Professor of Legal Philosophy University of Oxford
Elucidating Law Dickson Julie Professor of Legal Philosophy University of Oxford
What are the aims of legal philosophy? How should legal philosophers approach and engage with their subject-matter, and what constraints are incumbent on them as they do so? Which questions should it seek to address?
Can there be progress in legal philosophy?In Elucidating Law, Julie Dickson addresses these and other questions concerning the methodology, or the philosophy, of legal philosophy and offers her own distinctive response to them. What are the criteria of success of theories of law, and how do we know if they have been met? The book advocates that legal philosophers should espouse an approach that Dickson terms 'Indirectly EvaluativeLegal Philosophy.' This distinctive approach can facilitate legal philosophers' understanding of aspects of the nature of law, whilst avoiding prematurely or inappropriately regarding law as inherently morally valuable. Law is