Why No Judge Should Be a Dworkinian Coherentist

Texas Law Review

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Kress, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (16)

1. RONALD DWORKIN, Hard Cases, in TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY 81 (rev. ed. 1978).
2. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290- 300 (1992)
3. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290- 300 (1992)
4. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290- 300 (1992)
5. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290- 300 (1992)
6. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290- 300 (1992)
7. See, e.g., STEVEN J. BURTON, AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING 126-29 (2d ed. 1995); RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 19-20 (1986); MELVIN A. EISENBERG, THE NATURE OF THE COMMON LAW 17-18 (1988); ERNEST J. WEINRIB, THE IDEA OF PRIVATE LAW 38-42 (1995); Richard H. Fallon, Jr., A Constructivist Coherence Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 100 HARV. L. REV. 1189, 1237-43 (1987); Joseph Raz, The Relevance of Coherence, 72 B.U. L. REV. 273, 290-300 (1992)
8. , reprinted in JOSEPH RAZ, ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ESSAYS IN THE MORALITY OF LAW AND POLITICS 261, 279-80 (1994); Ernest J. Weinrib, Legal Formalism: On the Immanent Rationality of Law, 97 YALE L.J. 949, 970-75 (1988); Michael Moore, Law, Language, and Ethics (tent. ed. 1981) (unpublished casebook).
9. , reprinted in JOSEPH RAZ, ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ESSAYS IN THE MORALITY OF LAW AND POLITICS 261, 279-80 (1994); Ernest J. Weinrib, Legal Formalism: On the Immanent Rationality of Law, 97 YALE L.J. 949, 970-75 (1988); Michael Moore, Law, Language, and Ethics (tent. ed. 1981) (unpublished casebook).
10. , reprinted in JOSEPH RAZ, ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ESSAYS IN THE MORALITY OF LAW AND POLITICS 261, 279-80 (1994); Ernest J. Weinrib, Legal Formalism: On the Immanent Rationality of Law, 97 YALE L.J. 949, 970-75 (1988); Michael Moore, Law, Language, and Ethics (tent. ed. 1981) (unpublished casebook).
11. See DWORKIN, supra note 1, at 115-18; Kenneth J. Kress, Legal Reasoning and Coherence Theories: Dworkin's Rights Thesis, Retroactivity, and the Linear Order of Decisions, 72 CAL. L. REV. 369, 378 n.53 (1984).
12. See supra notes 2-3.
13. See JOHN RAWLS, A THEORY OF JUSTICE 46-53 (1971); John Rawls, Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics, 60 PHIL. REV. 177, 182-83 (1951).
14. See JOHN RAWLS, A THEORY OF JUSTICE 46-53 (1971); John Rawls, Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics, 60 PHIL. REV. 177, 182-83 (1951).
15. See DWORKIN, supra note 2, at 410-11.
16. See WEINRIB, supra note 2, at 12.