- 1. What Is Law?
- Why It Matters
- Disagreement about Law
- The Plain-Fact View
- A Threshold Objection
- The Real World
- Semantic Theories of Law
- The Real Argument for Semantic Theories
- 2. Interpretive Concepts
- The Semantic Sting
- An Imaginary Example
- A First Look at Interpretation
- Interpretation and Author’s Intention
- Art and the Nature of Intention
- Intentions and Practices
- Stages of Interpretation
- Philosophers of Courtesy
- A Digression: Justice
- Skepticism about Interpretation
- 3. Jurisprudence Revisited
- A New Picture
- Concepts and Conceptions of Law
- Skeptical Conceptions and Wicked Law
- Grounds and Force of Law
- 4. Conventionalism
- Its Structure
- Its Appeal
- Legal Conventions
- Two Kinds of Conventionalism
- Does Conventionalism Fit Our Practice?
- Does Conventionalism Justify Our Practice?
- 5. Pragmatism and Personification
- A Skeptical Conception
- Does Pragmatism Fit?
- Law without Rights
- The Claims of Integrity
- Community Personified
- 6. Integrity
- Agenda
- Does Integrity Fit?
- Is Integrity Attractive?
- The Puzzle of Legitimacy
- Obligations of Community
- Fraternity and Political Community
- Untidy Endnotes
- 7. Integrity in Law
- A Large View
- The Chain of Law
- Law: The Question of Emotional Damages
- A Provisional Summary
- Some Familiar Objections
- Skepticism in Law
- 8. The Common Law
- The Economic Interpretation
- Complexities
- The Question of Justice
- The Utilitarian Duty
- The Egalitarian Interpretation
- Equality and Comparative Cost
- Private People and Public Bodies
- 9. Statutes
- Legislative Intention
- Speaker’s Meaning
- Convictions
- Hercules’s Method
- Legislative History
- Statutes over Time
- When Is the Language Clear?
- 10. The Constitution
- Is Constitutional Law Built on a Mistake?
- Liberals and Conservatives
- Historicism
- Passivism
- Hercules on Olympus
- Theories of Racial Equality
- Deciding Brown
- Deciding Bakke
- Is Hercules a Tyrant?
- 11. Law Beyond Law
- Law Works Itself Pure
- Law’s Dreams
- Epilogue: What Is Law?
- Notes
- Index
Law’s Empire
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