Foreword: The Challenge of Legal Formalism
5 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2014
Date Written: November 2, 2014
Abstract
Just when everyone thought legal formalism was dead, Ernest Weinrib gives us collective pause. Over the course of the last decade, Professor Weinrib has championed the cause of legal formalism. Of course, like all works of sophisticated legal theory, Professor Weinrib's defense of legal formalism is remarkable, compelling and, at times, startling. Perhaps the most startling of his views is his claim that most of the tasks that contemporary legal theory sets for itself are misguided. The truth of this claim depends upon central features of Professor Weinrib's account of key issues such as justification, truth, and coherence.
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