caa a22 4500 388051019 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1352325200000987 doi S1352325200000987 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1352325200000987 The Possibility of Normative Jurisprudence: A Response to Brian Leiter [Elektronische Daten] In a recent article Brian Leiter concluded that a useful normative theory of adjudication is impossible. A normative theory of adjudication would be a theory that, among other things, identified the moral and political norms that judges ought to follow in determining the law for any particular legal dispute. Letter's elegant and subtle argument, stripped to its bones, runs as follows: Philosophers of law regard a correct normative theory of adjudication as being dependent upon an antecedent descriptive theory. The dependence here, as Leiter describes it, is of a very strong sort and unique among philosophical theories: Any normative theory, to be acceptable, cannot depart from the actual practice of judges and lawyers. Consequently, the content of the normative side of the theory is simply to "continue to do what you've been doing,” supplemented, perhaps, by Holme's injunction to do it more selfconsciously and explicitly. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Madry Alan R. Marquette University Law School Richeimer Joel F. Kenyon College Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/2(1998-06), 207-239 1352-3252 4:2<207 1998 4 LEG https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Madry Alan R. Marquette University Law School NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richeimer Joel F. Kenyon College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/2(1998-06), 207-239 1352-3252 4:2<207 1998 4 LEG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge