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22 Feb 2012, 4:00 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix A number of prominent legal positivists in recent years (including Jules Coleman and Scott Shapiro) have taken it as an urgent project – and have taken it as their project – to “explain law’s normativity. [read post]
28 Mar 2018, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Though Hans Kelsen is arguably the best-known and most influential legal philosopher of the 20th century world-wide, he is not especially well known among American scholars, and when his work is discussed in this country, it is often misunderstood.1 One scholar who has worked tirelessly for decades to make Kelsen better known and better understood on these shores is Stanley L. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 8:16 am by Brian Tamanaha
We also welcome jurisprudence reviews from others (send to Brian Bix or Brian Tamanaha). [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Most people who use the terms at all treat “jurisprudence” and “legal philosophy” as interchangeable terms. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 3:30 am by Brian Tamanaha
As Brian Bix declares in his leading Jurisprudence text, “historical jurisprudence has largely disappeared. [read post]
27 May 2011, 6:14 am by Lawrence Solum
Please click HERE to download the interview with Brian Bix. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 9:00 pm
Drake Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland), Thurgood Marshall on the Bench: ‘Race Man' and ‘Pragmatic Feminist’ FSU Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Contract Enforcement and the Harm Principle This paper is not publicly available. [read post]
5 May 2014, 3:25 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix In legal philosophy, as in many scholarly areas, there is a “good and original” problem: the work that is very good tends not to be particularly original (usually being rather a careful modification of existing ideas), and the work is truly original tends not be very good at all. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Henry Maine famously claimed that societies tend to move from status to contract.1Martha Ertman has been one of a number of prominent family law scholars who have chronicled, and at appropriate occasions critiqued, the way that family law has increasingly allowed enforceable agreements to modify or supplement the status relations of marriage and parenthood. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 5:42 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix At the heart of analytical legal philosophy are theories about the nature of law. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix Premarital agreements (also known as “antenuptial agreements” and “prenuptial agreements”) are agreements entered by spouses-to-be just before marriage. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 3:30 am by Brian Bix
Brian Bix In “Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions,” Jim Dwyer is working within an important tradition of thinkers (going back at least to George Orwell’s famous essay, “Politics and the English Language”) who correct the sloppy arguments, rhetoric, and terminology the rest of us make, to bring us collectively towards clearer moral and policy arguments. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 5:05 am
"  The other paper-contributors were Brian Bix, Patrick Brennan, Larry Solum, and Joe Vining. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 8:34 am by Brian Tamanaha
Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, Brian Bix. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 6:04 pm by Mitu Gulati
And Felipe is brilliant in his gentle but insightful questioning (as an aside, if you are a fan of contracts theory, you might also like the episode with Brian Bix; I loved it). [read post]