Wittgenstein and Law

Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.

• 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.

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