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Method and Principle in Legal Theory |
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Stephen R. Perry [View as PDF]
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111 Yale L.J. 1757 (2002)
The Practice of Principle is an excellent book that practically overflows with interesting and original arguments. Coleman is a superb analytical philosopher, as every page of the book attests. This is one of the most important contributions to legal theory to come along in a long time. Coleman's substantive views on both tort theory and jurisprudence reflect the richness and the complexity of the social phenomena, and he advances powerful arguments to support them. But the arguments would be even stronger if Coleman followed through on the logic of his pragmatic holism and abandoned the artificial restrictions he imposes on the use of moral argument in legal theory. Although this change in methodology is warranted in its own terms, the effect of adopting it could only be to enhance both the moral and theoretical appeal of Coleman's views.
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