Explaining Legal Facts

Greenberg, Mark

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1139135

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Explaining Legal Facts

Mark Greenberg

UCLA School of Law and Department of Philosophy

August 2007

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 08-19

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This paper was presented at the American Philosophical Association's 2007 Berger Prize session. It is a reply to Jeffrey Brand-Ballard's comment on my paper, How Facts Make Law, which was awarded the 2007 Berger Memorial Prize for the outstanding paper in philosophy of law published during 2004 and 2005.

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Keywords: determinants of legal content, explanation, Greenberg, legal positivism, metaethics, moral facts, moral particularism, normative facts, normativity, philosophy, reasons, rational determination

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Date posted: May 31, 2008

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Greenberg, Mark, Explaining Legal Facts (August 2007). UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 08-19. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1139135 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1139135

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