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Interpretivism and its Critics

New Work in Legal Philosophy

Nicolaos Stavropoulos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
512 Seiten
2026
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-7581-5 (ISBN)
CHF 165,85 inkl. MwSt
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This book offers a fresh and comprehensive reassessment of interpretivism, one of the two main philosophical accounts of law’s nature.

Interpretivism is drawn from many different sources and traditions. Accordingly, it is relevant to various fields of inquiry. This volume presents a diverse range of perspectives on its central idea, first expressed by Ronald Dworkin, that law is a moral interpretation of a community’s past political decisions. It advances our understanding of interpretivism by restating, revising, and offering new defences and critiques of some of its main tenets.

This collection brings together established figures and rising stars from across legal, political, and other areas of philosophy. There are thirteen essays, each accompanied by a response. The result is a unique and insightful overview of the current state of debate in legal philosophy.

Nicolaos Stavropoulos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK.

1. What Makes a Moral Duty Legal? Dworkin’s Judicial Enforcement Theory Versus the Moral Impact Theory, Mark Greenberg (UCLA, USA)
Respondent: Felipe Jiminez (University of Southern California, USA)

2. Dworkin in His Best Light, Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan, USA) and Steve Schaus (University of Michigan, USA)
Respondent: Dworkin in a Better Light, Charles Barzun, (University of Virginia, USA)

3. Law in the Service of Legitimacy, Dimitrios Kyritsis (University of Essex, UK)
Respondent: Law Between Integrity and Assurance, Ezequiel Monti (Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina)

4. Role Obligations, Associative Obligations and the Law, George Letsas (University College London, UK)
Respondent: Social Rules and Social Construction, Tom Adams (University of Oxford, UK)

5. Integrity in Law’s Empire, Andrei Marmor (Cornell University, USA)
Respondent: Title TBC, Trenton Sewell (University of Oxford, UK)

6. Law and Determinations of Meaning, Stephen Neale (CUNY, USA)
Respondent: Timothy Endicott (University of Oxford, UK)

7. Missing the Forest for the Trees: Ronald Dworkin’s Excessive Preoccupation with Morality, Ofer Raban (University of Oregon, USA)
Respondent: From Morality to Rationality and Beyond, Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall, Canada)

8. Excuse Me, Hercules: The Legal Status of Imperfect Constitutional Duties, Lawrence G Sager (UT Austin, USA)
Respondent: On (Not) Setting Boundaries, Conor Crummey (Maynooth University, Ireland)

9. Is Democracy Impossible Here?, Tamsin Shaw (New York University, USA)
Respondent: Is Democracy Possible (T)here? Why We Should Bet That It Is, and How It May Still Be, Cécile Degiovanni (University of Oxford, UK)

10. The Force Hypothesis, Angelo Ryu and Nicolaos Stavropoulos (University of Oxford, UK)
Respondent: Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford, UK)

11. Impersonal Entitlements and Distributive Justice, Sandy Steel (University of Oxford, UK)
Respondent: Different Questions, Chris Essert (University of Toronto, Canada)

12. Law as Integrity and Ideology, Laura Valentini (University of Munich, Germany)
Respondent: Integrity and Social Facts, Felix Koch (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

13. Reconstructing Precedent, Nina Varsava (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Respondent: Problems with Stare Decisis and Its Moral Basis, Jeremy Waldron (New York University, USA)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.8.2026
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 1-5099-7581-0 / 1509975810
ISBN-13 978-1-5099-7581-5 / 9781509975815
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