Who Needs Rules of Recognition?

The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Waldron, Jeremy ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

Author keywords

H. L. A. Hart; Legal system; Modern jurisprudence; Rules of change; Rules of recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195343298.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. H.L.A. HART, THE CONCEPT OF LAW 91-99 (Penelope A. Bulloch & Joseph Raz eds., 2d ed. 1994).
2. THOMAS HOBBES, LEVIATHAN 189 (Richard Tuck ed., 1988).
3. There is a fine discussion in JULES COLEMAN, THE PRACTICE OF PRINCIPLE: IN DEFENSE OF A PRAGMATIST APPROACH TO LEGAL THEORY 78-84 (2001).
4. See JEREMY WALDRON, LAW AND DISAGREEMENT 103-05 (1999).
5. See also Jeremy Waldron, Law, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY 181-86 (Frank Jackson & Michael Smith eds., 2005).
6. RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 135-39 (1986).
7. JOHN AUSTIN, LECTURES ON JURISPRUDENCE 266-67 & 315 (5th ed. 1885) (emphasis in original).
8. Cf. Jeremy Waldron, Principles of Legislation, in THE LEAST EXAMINED BRANCH: THE ROLE OF LEGISLATURES IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE 15, esp. 22-23 (Richard Bauman & Tsvi Kahana eds., 2006).
9. Matthew D. Adler & Michael C. Dorf, Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review, 89 VA. L. REV. 1105 (2003).
10. ROBERT COVER, JUSTICE ACCUSED: ANTISLAVERY AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS (1975).
11. For "normative positivism," see Jeremy Waldron, Normative (or Ethical) Positivism, in HART'S POSTSCRIPT: ESSAYS ON THE POSTSCRIPT TO THE CONCEPT OF LAW 411 (Jules Coleman ed., 2001).
12. John Finnis, On Hart's Ways: Law as Reason and as Fact, 52 AM. J. JURIS. 25, 44 (2007).