Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 1

Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Lawis an annual forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal law to evidence to international law), the history of legal philosophy, and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory.OSPLwill be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historians of law who wish to keep up with the latest developments in this flourishing field.

Leslie Green has visited and taught at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests include jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy and constitutional theory.

Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford, 2007) and was for nearly eight years an editor of the journal Legal Theory.

1. Reason-Giving and the Law, David Enoch
2. The Standard Picture and Its Discontents, Mark Greenberg
3. Legal Judgments as Plural Acceptance of Norms, Kevin Toh
4. Rule-Scepticism Restated, Riccardo Guastini
5. Can There be a Written Constitution?, John Gardner
6. The Rules of Trial, Political Morality and the Costs of Error: Or, Is Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doing More Harm than Good?, Larry Laudan
7. Self-Defense: The Imminence Requirement, Marcia Baron
8. Criminal Law, Philosophy, and Psychology: Working At the Cross-roads, Thomas Nadelhoffer