Naturalizing Jurisprudence

This book will confirm Brian Leiter's place in the front rank of legal theorists in the world today. Leiter is not just someone who writes well about what others have said. He has carved out a new path in legal theory, and set new standards for critical analysis and insight along the way. * Jeremy Horder, Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Criminal Law, Oxford University *
Brian Leiter is one of the leading proponents of the use and application of so-called 'naturalistic developments' in contemporary philosophy to central questions in analytic jurisprudence. He is also arguably the leading philosophical interpreter of legal realism. In Naturalizing Jurisprudence, he collects many of his most important essays on these topics, organized by theme, and presents previously unpublished responses to critics. The result is a work that goes well beyond the individual essays to present a trenchant, multi-faceted and mutually-reinforcing set of challenges to core views and methodologies that are prevalent in the field. In an important sense, the book is also agenda setting... This is thus an important book by one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time. * Robin Bradley Kar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009 *