Sentences with phrase «legal philosopher»
The notable legal philosopher turns his keen analytical powers to questions of Scripture.
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The New York Review of Books has a series of podcasts online, one of which is of legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin interviewed by Hugh Eakin of the NYRB editorial staff.
George and Bradley concede that the distinguished legal philosopher Stephen Macedo (among many others) thinks the change is beneficial because he honestly fails to perceive what to them is self - evident.
The normative values underpinning the open court principle are complex, and deliberation on them is found in canonical Supreme Court of Canada case law, as well as in the writings of legal philosophers and critics such as Jeremy Bentham, Lon L. Fuller, and Jeremy Waldron.
R. Kent Greenawalt, a University Professor at Columbia University, is a distinguished legal philosopher who has tried to justify a mild theism without directly challenging the modernist definition of rationality.
Kennedy's dignity jurisprudence draws on recent work among legal philosophers.
Professor Dworkin's academic work was in many ways a reaction to that of H. L. A. Hart, the British legal philosopher...
Googling the phrase, and then reading the Wikipedia entry that topped the results list, confirms your recollection that this is a fictitious judgment involving cave explorers and cannibalism, written by legal philosopher Lon L. Fuller.
Legal philosopher Frederick Schauer praises the article for «analytic precision, careful argument, useful distinctions, and just the right amount of philosophy».
Legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, for example, says that to interpret a constitutional phrase, «thoughtful judges» must «decide on their own which conception does most credit to the nation.»
For example, the legal philosopher George Wright argued that by this system it is difficult to know whether a golfer who sees a child drowning in a pond should interrupt his game to rescue the child, since he would be sacrificing one basic good (play) for another (life).
Some legal philosophers say that liberalism implies the exclusion of religious considerations from public life.
Some legal philosophers refer to this as «post-modernism.»
Indeed, some legal philosophers have justified punishment on the basis that it is a kindness to offenders to punish them since it permits them to heal.
Ronald Dworkin, a legal philosopher and public intellectual of bracingly liberal views who insisted that morality is the touchstone of constitutional interpretation, died Thursday in London.
Legal philosopher and Oxford and NYU Law Professor Ronald Dworkin died last month.
Legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin famously compares the evolution of constitutional law with the writing of a chain novel in which a group of writers creates new chapters built upon the choices made in previous chapters by other authors.
Legal philosopher and public intellectual died yesterday: February 14, 2013.