{"id":131,"date":"2009-11-16T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hltf\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-11-16T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:56:37","slug":"legal-theory-reading-group-tue-nov-17-730-pm-location-tba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/2009\/11\/16\/legal-theory-reading-group-tue-nov-17-730-pm-location-tba\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Theory Reading Group, Tue., Nov. 17, 7:30 PM, Hauser 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Theory Reading Group will meet on Tuesday at 7:30 (note the change from the Wednesday meeting time) in Hauser 103.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss Brian Leiter on &#8220;Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered,&#8221; 111 Ethics 278 (2001), http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/233474, which argues that while legal positivism is a theory of law, legal realism is a theory of adjudication.  Conceptually, then, there is no conflict between the two theories.  At the empirical level, there is a genuine disagreement between the two theories, but positivism has no good arguments against the realist empirical account. (24 journal pages).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Theory Reading Group will meet on Tuesday at 7:30 (note the change from the Wednesday meeting time) in Hauser 103. We will discuss Brian Leiter on &#8220;Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered,&#8221; 111 Ethics 278 (2001), http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/233474, which argues that while legal positivism is a theory of law, legal realism is a theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[4665],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-theory-reading-group","tag-legal-theory-reading-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}