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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「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...
評分曆時半個多月讀完,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「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)....
評分在每一個學科領域,都存在許多重要著作,但隻有極少數著作,可以稱作界碑式的。界碑式著作不隻重要,它的齣現還意味著某種整體性變化,或用界碑一詞的通常含義來說,這類著作界定瞭一種新的學術研究的“邊界位置和走嚮”,甚至會引起學科精神氣質的改變。在過去五十年來的英語...
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Dworkin 很牛X。。。
評分Dworkin 很牛X。。。
評分very interesting and classic
評分以颱譯為主,讀不懂就對照英文原版,往往豁然開朗(當然也有很多仍然不明白的地方)。無恥地標注個讀完。
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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