Topic: Jurisprudence

Order Description
Question: What is the semantic sting? Is it fatal, as Dworkin alleges, to semantic theories of law?
Word limit: 3,000 words not including bibliography and not including footnotes. Footnotes must contain only citations and not text. Oxford style.
Recommended referencing :
Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Oxford: Hart, 1998)
Penner, Schiff and Nobles eds Jurisprudence and Legal Theory: Commentary and Materials , Chapter 10(London, Butterworths, 2002)
Ronald Dworkin Social Rules (Models of Rules II) (81 Yale. L.J. 855 1971-1972)
Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Bloomsbury, 1997)
Ronald Dworkin, A Matter of Principle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985)
Ronald Dworkin Justice in Robes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Robert Alexy, The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism (Oxford: OUP, 2002)
Justine Burley ed. Dworkin and his Critics: with replies by Dworkin (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004)
Emilios Christodoulidis, ‘“End of History” Jurisprudence: Dworkin in South Africa’ (2004) Acta Juridica 64
Marshall Cohen ed Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence (London: Duckworth, 1983)
David Dyzenhaus, Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems, 2nd ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
R Fallon ‘In memoriam: Ronald Dworkin’ 127 Harvard Law Review 489 (2013)
J Finnis ‘On Reason and Authority in Law’s Empire’ 6 Law and Philosophy 357 (1987)
Stephen Guest Ronald Dworkin (Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2013)
Alan Hunt ed. Reading Dworkin Critically (New York: Berg, 1992)
Sheldon Leader ‘Impartiality, Bias, and the Judiciary’ in Hunt ed above
Brian Leiter ‘The End of Empire: Dworkin and Twenty-first Century Jurisprudence’ 36 Rutgers Law Rev. (2004) 165
JL Mackie ‘The Third Theory of Law’ Philosophy & Public Affairs 7:1, (1977)
J Raz ‘Dworkin: a New Link in the Chain’ 74 California Law Review 1103 (1986)
Arthur Ripstein, Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Raymond Wacks, ‘Judges and Injustice’ (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 266

Jurisprudence
Order Description
The Question is: “The problem with economic analysis of law is that money is not an adequate measure of welfare or fairness.” Discuss.

Footnotes must contain only citations and not text.
Recommended Referencing:
G Calabresi The Cost of Accidents: a Legal and Economic Analysis (Newhaven:Yale UP, 1970)
P Cane “The Anatomy of Private Law Theory: A 25th Anniversary Essay” (2005) 25 OJLS 203
R Coase “The Problem of Social Cost” 3 Journal of Law and Economics 1 (1960)
R Dworkin “Is Wealth a Value”, chapter 12 of A Matter of Principle
R Dworkin Law’s Empire chapter 8
I Englard The Philosophy of Tort Law (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993)
George Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory” 85 Harvard Law Review 537 (1972)
J Hanson, K Hanson and M Hart “Law and Economics” in D Patterson ed A Companion to the
Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2nd ed, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
W Landes and R Posner The Economic Structure of Tort Law (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1 987)
A Leff “Economic Analysis of Law: Some Realism about Nominalism” 60 Virginia Law Review 451
(1974)
D Owen ed Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford: OUP, 1995)
S Perry “The Moral Foundations of Tort Law” 77 Iowa L. Rev 449
Richard Posner “A Theory of Negligence” 1 J. Leg. Studies 29 (1972) pp.29-33
R Posner “Utilitarianism, Economics and Legal Theory” 8 Journal of Legal Studies 103 (1972)
R Posner Economic Analysis of Law (8th ed, New York: Aspen, 2011) chapter 6
G Postema ed Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge: CUP, 2001)
R Wright “Hand, Posner, and the Myth of the ‘Hand Formula’” 4 Theoretical Inquiries in
Law 1 (2003)

Jurisprudence
Order Description
The Question is: “The problem with economic analysis of law is that money is not an adequate measure of welfare or fairness.” Discuss.

Footnotes must contain only citations and not text.
Recommended Referencing:
G Calabresi The Cost of Accidents: a Legal and Economic Analysis (Newhaven:Yale UP, 1970)
P Cane “The Anatomy of Private Law Theory: A 25th Anniversary Essay” (2005) 25 OJLS 203
R Coase “The Problem of Social Cost” 3 Journal of Law and Economics 1 (1960)
R Dworkin “Is Wealth a Value”, chapter 12 of A Matter of Principle
R Dworkin Law’s Empire chapter 8
I Englard The Philosophy of Tort Law (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993)
George Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory” 85 Harvard Law Review 537 (1972)
J Hanson, K Hanson and M Hart “Law and Economics” in D Patterson ed A Companion to the
Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2nd ed, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
W Landes and R Posner The Economic Structure of Tort Law (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1 987)
A Leff “Economic Analysis of Law: Some Realism about Nominalism” 60 Virginia Law Review 451
(1974)
D Owen ed Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford: OUP, 1995)
S Perry “The Moral Foundations of Tort Law” 77 Iowa L. Rev 449
Richard Posner “A Theory of Negligence” 1 J. Leg. Studies 29 (1972) pp.29-33
R Posner “Utilitarianism, Economics and Legal Theory” 8 Journal of Legal Studies 103 (1972)
R Posner Economic Analysis of Law (8th ed, New York: Aspen, 2011) chapter 6
G Postema ed Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge: CUP, 2001)
R Wright “Hand, Posner, and the Myth of the ‘Hand Formula’” 4 Theoretical Inquiries in
Law 1 (2003)