What Is the Rule of Recognition (And Does It Exist)?

The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Shapiro, Scott J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

H. L. A. Hart; Legal system; Positivism; Rules of recognition; Shared plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195343298.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. H.L.A. HART, THE CONCEPT OF LAW 91 (Penelope A. Bulloch & Joseph Raz eds., 2d ed. 1994).
2. On whether the rule of recognition may incorporate moral criteria of legality, compare Jules Coleman, Negative and Positive Positivism, in MARKETS, MORALS AND THE LAW 3 (1988);
3. WILFRED WALUCHOW, INCLUSIVE LEGAL POSITIVISM (1994);
4. Matthew Kramer, How Moral Principles Enter Into Law, 6 LEGAL THEORY 83 (2000)
5. Scott Shapiro, On Hart's Way Out, 4 LEGAL THEORY 469 (1998);
6. ANDREI MARMOR, POSITIVE LAW AND OBJECTIVE VALUES, Chs. 1 and 2 (2001)
7. Gerald Postema, Coordination and Convention at the Foundations of Law, 11 J. LEGAL STUD. 165 (1982)
8. Julie Dickson, Is the Rule of Recognition Really a Conventional Rule?, 27 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 373 (2007)
9. Leslie Green, Positivism and Conventionalism, 12 CAN. J. L. & JURIS. 35 (1999).
10. See RONALD DWORKIN, The Model of Rules II, in TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY 46 (1978).
11. MICHAEL BRATMAN, INTENTION, PLANS, AND PRACTICAL REASON 28-30 (1987).
12. See generally Ernest Young, The Constitution Outside the Constitution, 117 YALE L.J. 408 (2007).
13. JOHN HART ELY, DEMOCRACY AND DISTRUST 18 (1980).
14. Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, "Sermon Preached Before the King," (1717), quoted in JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, The Nature and Sources of Law 125 (2d ed. 1921).
15. ANTONIN SCALIA, A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION 40-41 (1997).