Academic

Kar on Leiter on Naturalized Jurisprudence

By Lawrence Solum

Robin Bradley Kar (University of Illinois College of Law) has posted On the Prospects of a Naturalized Jurisprudence: Review of Brian Leiter, Naturalizing Jurisprudence (Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2009)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Brian Leiter is one of the leading proponents of the use and application of so-called "naturalistic developments" in contemporary philosophy to central questions in analytic jurisprudence. He is also arguably *the* leading philosophical interpreter of legal realism. In Naturalizing Jurisprudence, he collects many of his most important essays on these topics, organized by theme, and presents previously unpublished responses to critics.

In this Review, I critically examine the three parts of Leiter's book, which address: (1) the philosophical legacy of American legal realism, with specific reference to the nature of justification in adjudication; (2) the appropriate philosophical methodology to determine the nature of law (including what conclusions to draw from this methodology); and (3) the bearing that issues in meta-ethics might have on legal objectivity. Special emphasis is given throughout to the larger prospects for a naturalized jurisprudence, and to how alternative versions of naturalized views might look.

Highly recommended.  And here is a link to Leiter's Naturalizing Jurisprudence.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).