Question: What is ‘integrity’? How does it relate to Dworkin’s theory of interpretation?
Answer: This paper will seek to explicate the meaning of ‘integrity’ and its role in Dworkin’s jurisprudence. It will seek to detail the way in which integrity is a central part of Dworkin’s attempt to develop a theory of interpretation that fully explains the process of judicial adjudication primarily in the context of the Anglo-American tradition. Dworkin is motivated to develop his alternative approach by his rejection of what he characterizes as the semantic approach to legal theory, which he takes legal positivism to be a prominent example of (Dworkin, 1986: p6). The critique, which Dworkin refers to as the ‘semantic sting’, runs in the following way: legal theories like positivism aim at elucidating the shared rules in the correct application of the word ‘law’ and so aim o......(short extract)
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Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 1429 | References: Yes | Date written: October, 2006 | Date submitted: October 07, 2011 | Coursework ID: 697
