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>
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曆時半個多月讀完,掩捲深思,百感交集。 雖然本科、研究生階段都在學法學,雖然多年來我的職業經曆即是法學,但真正讀過的法學專著並不多,太多時間被荒廢。本書的經典地位和學術價值無需我這樣一個無名小卒多講,何況其嚴密的論證讓我並不能一直跟隨作者的腳步,但對我...
評分Ronald Dworkin is one of the most prominent law philosophers in the common law tradition. Known both in America and Britain for his strong democratic positions, baptized by Duncan Kennedy `orthodox centrism', Dworkin is an acid critic of the paradigms of th...
評分如果讀者早就知道德沃金的理論大概是什麼瞭,那其實也可以通過讀這個譯本看明白的,這是我個人的經驗。 這本書的所有理論都建立在一個假定上,即當我們隻有知道一個規則如何具體適用的情況下,我們纔能迴答“這個規則是什麼”這一抽象問題。所以說對一個法律規則適用不適用於...
評分「法理思維與名著導讀(二):德沃金《法律帝國》導讀」 時間:2010.11.03 主講人:莊世同颱灣大學法律學院副教授主持人顔厥安教授 鏈接:https://vimeo.com/16494201 本文以下引用的頁碼皆以英文版RonaldDworkin,Law’sEmpire,Cambridge,Mass.:HarvardUniversityPress(1986)....
評分如果讀者早就知道德沃金的理論大概是什麼瞭,那其實也可以通過讀這個譯本看明白的,這是我個人的經驗。 這本書的所有理論都建立在一個假定上,即當我們隻有知道一個規則如何具體適用的情況下,我們纔能迴答“這個規則是什麼”這一抽象問題。所以說對一個法律規則適用不適用於...
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評分總算一次性從頭到尾一字不跳讀瞭一遍,把丟掉的筆記補上瞭,也做瞭後麵幾章的筆記。但感覺還沒完全理解。
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評分重讀瞭12367和11章,關注瞭解釋與客觀性的問題。
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