Law and Objectivity

Kent Greenawalt (Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University Law School)

Law and Objectivity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
28 June 1995
Pages
300
ISBN
9780195098334

Law and Objectivity

Kent Greenawalt (Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University Law School)

In modern times the idea of the objectivity of law has been undermined by skepticism about legal institutions, disbelief in ideals of unbiased evaluation, and a conviction that language is indeterminate. Greenawalt here considers the validity of such skepticism, examining such questions as: whether the law as it exists provides determinate answers to legal problems; whether the law should treat people in an objective way, according to abstract rules, general categories, and external consequences; and how far the law is anchored in something external to itself, such as social morality, political justice, or economic efficiency. In the process he illuminates the development of jurisprudence in the English-speaking world over the last fifty years, assessing the contributions of many important movements.

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