On Philosophy in American Law: analytical legal philosophy
The article was written for a collection, On Philosophy in American Law, edited by Francis J. Mootz, III, and published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. The idea for the collection was to commemorate the 75 anniversary of an article by the important American legal theorist, Karl Llewellyn, "On Philosophy in American Law." A group of three dozen or so legal theorists provided short essays on the role that philosophy does or should play in American legal thought. The article focused on analytical legal theory - the approach of theorists like John Austin, H.L.A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, and Joseph Raz. As author explains in the article, analytical legal philosophy has been consistently undervalued and misunderstood in American legal scholarship, because the United States has always had a bias towards theories that focus on judicial reasoning (as a common law country, and one with constitution-based judicial review, judicial decision-making is important, highly-valued, and deeply studied) and theories offer legal criticism and proposals for legal reform. In the article, author sets out a brief history of English-language analytical legal philosophy, and defends its value and usefulness.
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аналитическая философия права, теория права, юридический позитивизм. Рецепция аналитической философии права, analytical legal philosophy, legal theory, legal positivismAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Bix B. | University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) | bix@umn.edu |
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