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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1.這本書的中文版是個噩夢,隻要不是英文文盲,請盡量讀原版。 2.論證搭建的極其細密,要非常小心纔能不被層疊的隱喻和修辭繞暈。 3.復雜的言辭背後,這本書最大的野心,應該是在實證主義的銅牆鐵壁中,為政治對法律的入侵打開一個通道。 4.其方法主要是精確的分類學和精巧的解...
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...
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[按語:“法律帝國(Law’s empire)”一詞仿佛隱喻法律的人格化,在前言首段中有齣現。此書中Dworkin批評瞭法律實證主義(用批評時髦的法律語義學的形式),辯護瞭law as integrity的道德主義法學理想(偏嚮於自然法學派,但並不主張一種獨立於共同體之外的a priori morality...
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...
圖書標籤: 法學 德沃金 法理學 法律 Dworkin 法哲學 philosophy 法理
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。
評分insightful
評分Dworkin 很牛X。。。
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。
評分very interesting and classic
Law's Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載