Dale Smith

University of Melbourne - Law School

Associate Professor

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185 Pelham Street, Carlton

Victoria, Victoria 3010

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1.

Ronald Dworkin and the External Sceptic

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 433-457, 2006, Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006/55
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2009
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Dworkin, scepticism, objectivism

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Agreement and Disagreement in Law

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2015, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 706
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 May 2015
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Ronald Dworkin, theoretical disagreement, Brian Leiter, agreement in legal judgments, theory choice in jurisprudence

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Direct Discrimination Without a Comparator? Moving to a Test of Unfavourable Treatment

Federal Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2015, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 708
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jul 2015
Colin Campbell and Dale Smith
Monash University - Faculty of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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anti-discrimination law, direct discrimination, comparator, unfavourable treatment, value-based approaches

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What is Statutory Purpose?

Forthcoming in Lisa Burton, Patrick Emerton and Dale Smith (eds), Law under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Hart Publishing (2019), U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 799
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Oct 2018
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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statutory purpose, statutory interpretation, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, purposivism, legislative intent, Mark Greenberg

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Reckless Rape in Victoria

Melbourne Univeristy Law Review, Vol. 32, p. 1007, 2008, Monash University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009/12
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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recklessness, rape, consent, possibility recklessness, indifference recklessness, inadvertence recklessness

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Is the High Court Mistaken About the Aim of Statutory Interpretation?

Federal Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2016, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 741
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Sep 2016
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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statutory interpretation, the meaning thesis, Mark Greenberg, legislative intent

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Must the Law Be Capable of Possessing Authority?

Legal Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2012)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Law’s claim to authority; exclusive legal positivism; Joseph Raz; criterial explanations of concepts; multiple concepts of authority; confusion about concepts

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Should Courts Follow Mistaken Statutory Precedents?

Forthcoming in T Endicott, H Kristjansson and S Lewis (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 May 2022
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Statutory Interpretation, Precedent, Parliamentary Supremacy, Judicial Practice, Rule of Law

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Can Anti-Objectivists Support Judicial Review?

Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006/54, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 31, pp. 50-71, 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Feb 2008
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Jurisprudence, legitimacy of judicial review, moral objectivism

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The Grounding Requirement for Direct Discrimination

The Law Quarterly Review, Vol. 136, (2020), 258-283, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 937
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2021
Colin Campbell and Dale Smith
Monash University - Faculty of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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anti-discrimination law, direct discrimination, Equality Act 2010, unconscious discrimination

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Unstated Legal Obligations

in Stefano Bertea (ed), Contemporary Perspectives on Legal Obligation (Routledge, 2021)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Apr 2022
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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legal obligation, statutory interpretation, King v Burwell, authoritative directives, maximising approach, statutory purpose

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The Practice-based Objection to the 'Standard Picture' of How Law Works

(2019) 10(4) Jurisprudence 502-531
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Apr 2022
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Standard Picture, statutory interpretation, law and language, Mark Greenberg, William Baude, Stephen Sachs

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A New Type of Convention? Some Remarks on Bruno Celano's 'Pre-Conventions'

Revus, Volume 30 (2016), U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 747
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Apr 2017
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Bruno Celano, conventions, pre-conventions, David Lewis

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The Role of Conventions in Law

Jurisprudence, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 451, 2011, Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17
Posted: 07 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School

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conventions, Hart, Marmor, language, rules of recognition

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Has Raz Drawn the Semantic Sting?

Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-19, Law and Philosophy, Vol. 28, No, 3, p. 291
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School

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Law and Philosophy, Legal philosophy, Raz, Dworkin, semantic sting argument

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The Use of Meta-Ethics in Adjudication

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 25-47, 2003
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Dale Smith
University of Melbourne - Law School

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