Methodology of Legal Theory

Michael Giudice, York University, Canada, Wil Waluchow, McMaster University, Canada and Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Problems and Aims: What is jurisprudence about? Theories, definitions, concepts, or conceptions of law?, Michael D. Bayles; General jurisprudence: a 25th anniversary essay, Leslie Green; Leaving the Hart-Dworkin debate, Keith Culver; The methodology of jurisprudence: 30 years off the point, Andrew Halpin; Ways of understanding diversity among theories of law, Michael Giudice. Part II Issues of Semantics and Epistemology: Two views of the nature of the theory of law: a partial comparison, Joseph Raz; Jurisprudence and necessity, Danny Priel; Jurisprudence as practical philosophy, Gerald J. Postema; Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence, Brian Leiter. Part III Perspectives on Morality in the Theory of Law: Hart's postscript and the character of political philosophy, Ronald Dworkin; Law and what I truly should decide, John Finnis; Concepts of law, Liam Murphy; Methodology in jurisprudence: a critical survey, Julie Dickson. Part IV Issues of Scope and Concepts: Transnational communities and the concept of law, Roger Cotterrell; Have concepts, will travel: analytical jurisprudence in a global context, William Twining; Socio-legal positivism and a general jurisprudence, Brian Z. Tamanaha; Doin' the transsystemic: legal systems and legal traditions, H. Patrick Glenn; Name index.