Law's Empire

出版者:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

作者:Ronald Dworkin

页数:470

出版时间:1986-1-1

价格:USD 37.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674518360

图书标签:法学德沃金法理学法律Dworkin法哲学philosophy法理

With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law's Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated--by scholars and theorists, by lawyers and judges, by students and political activists--for years to come. </p>

Dworkin begins with the question that is at the heart of the whole legal system: in difficult cases how do (and how should) judges decide what the law is? He shows that judges must decide hard cases by interpreting rather than simply applying past legal decisions, and he produces a general theory of what interpretation is--in literature as well as in law--and of when one interpretation is better than others. Every legal interpretation reflects an underlying theory about the general character of law: Dworkin assesses three such theories. One, which has been very influential, takes the law of a community to be only what the established conventions of that community say it is. Another, currently in vogue, assumes that legal practice is best understood as an instrument of society to achieve its goals. Dworkin argues forcefully and persuasively against both these views: he insists that the most fundamental point of law is not to report consensus or provide efficient means to social goals, but to answer the requirement that a political community act in a coherent and principled manner toward all its members. He discusses, in the light of that view, cases at common law, cases arising under statutes, and great constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, and he systematically demonstrates that his concept of political and legal integrity is the key to Anglo-American legal theory and practice. </p>

读后感

如果读者早就知道德沃金的理论大概是什么了，那其实也可以通过读这个译本看明白的，这是我个人的经验。 这本书的所有理论都建立在一个假定上，即当我们只有知道一个规则如何具体适用的情况下，我们才能回答“这个规则是什么”这一抽象问题。所以说对一个法律规则适用不适用于...  

历时半个多月读完，掩卷深思，百感交集。 虽然本科、研究生阶段都在学法学，虽然多年来我的职业经历即是法学，但真正读过的法学专著并不多，太多时间被荒废。本书的经典地位和学术价值无需我这样一个无名小卒多讲，何况其严密的论证让我并不能一直跟随作者的脚步，但对我...  

一般认为，《法律帝国》的出版标志着德沃金的“解释转向”，但带有解释色彩的思想因素其实已经存在于收录在《认真对待权利》一书的作品当中了，这主要表现在德沃金解读《正义论》的文章《正义与权利》中。在这篇文章里，德沃金试图对罗尔斯的观点作出更为准确、融贯的阐述，他...  

Introduction American jurisprudence is marked by a concentration with the judicial process, that is how judges reason and should reason in deciding particular cases. In Professor Hart’s metaphorical words, American jurisprudence has oscillated between tw...  

翻译太差,严重影响了这本名著的可读性.回头找个原版看看. p60 对于阐释的深入研究. p68 正义理论的重要性,与罗尔斯的参照对比. p119 法律对于社会的影响,而中国法律这方面的作用缺失了(由于未能发挥应有的作用) p148 生活在普通政治中的现实的人生活在某种政治结构之中,而且依...  

用户评价

終於把此書的英文版讀畢，偉大的Empire，偉大的Dworkin.(於之江月輪山雪飄之時)ps:明天離開之江去玉泉。

Dworkin 很牛X。。。

以台译为主，读不懂就对照英文原版，往往豁然开朗（当然也有很多仍然不明白的地方）。无耻地标注个读完。

insightful

时间不够 要还回去.. 法哲学部分好理解... 法学部分不好理解...... 没法学基础啊...