LEGAL RULES AND LEGAL REASONING (Hardcover)

Contents: Legal Rules and Indirect Consequentializm: Pursuing the good - indirectly; Law and exclusionary Reasons. The Dilemma of Rule-Following: The gap; The deceptive nature of rules (with Emily Sherwin); Can law survive the asymmetry of authority?. Rules and Legal Reasoning - A) Precedent: Constrained by precedent; Precedent. B) Analogy: Bad beginnings; The banality of legal reasoning. C) Legal Principles: Striking back at the empire: a brief survey of problems in Dworkin's theory of law; Against legal principles (with Kenneth Kress); Replies to our critics (with Kenneth Kress). D) Interpretation: Practical Reason and Statutory Interpretation; All or Nothing At All?: The intentions of authorities and the authority of intentions (1995). Rules and Constitutionalism: The Constitution as law (1989); Originalizm, or who is Fred? (1995); Constitutional tragedies and giving refuge to the devil (1998); Introduction from Constitutionalizm: Philosophical Foundations (1998).