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Interview About Legal Philosophy

Brian Leiter
University of Chicago Law School



LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: 5 QUESTIONS, Automatic Press, 2007
U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 120

Abstract:     
This is the text of an interview with Brian Leiter that will appear in the book "Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions." The questions addressed are: 1. Why were you initially drawn to the philosophy of law? 2. For which of your contribution(s) to legal philosophy so far would you most like to be remembered, and why? 3. What are the most important issues in legal philosophy, and why are they distinctively issues of legal philosophy rather than some other discipline? 4. What is the relationship between legal philosophy and legal practice? Should legal philosophers be more concerned about the effect of their scholarship on legal practice? 5. To which problem, issue or broad area of legal philosophy would you most like to see more attention paid in the future?

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Date posted: May 17, 2007 ; Last revised: November 01, 2007

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Leiter, Brian, Interview About Legal Philosophy. LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: 5 QUESTIONS, Automatic Press, 2007; U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 120. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=986606


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Brian Leiter (Contact Author)
University of Chicago Law School ( email )
1111 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
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