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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Laws Humility: Enlarging the Scope of Jurisprudential Disagreement by Triantafyllos Gkouvas
This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances. It argues that familiar taxonomic labels such as legal positivism natural law theory and legal interpretivism are poor guides to the actual diversity of views on the nature and normativity of law mainly because they fail to carve up the reality of jurisprudential disagreement at its joints. These joints the author suggests are elusive because the semantics of law systematically misplaces them. Their true nature resides in the metaontological and metanormative features that dictate or indicate the target of a theory’s jurisprudential commitments.