Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly respected contemporaries such as Ronald Dworkin and Joseph Raz. The first part of the book builds on Coleman's well-known 'corrective justice' account of tort law, highlighting the sophisticated pragmatist methodology that he brings to bear on legal theory and presing further his critique of the law and economics school of legal analysis. The second part advances a new articulation of the jurisprudential view associated most closely with Coleman - Inclusive Legal Positivism. Many of Coleman's most controversial claims are here defended as part of a comprehensive new account of law as a conventional practice. The third part takes up the question whether conceptual analysis of the law - an approach that has long dominated philosophical thinking on the topic - is even possible. Rejecting recent arguments that it must be replaced by a normative or naturalized jurisprudence, Coleman defends his distinctive form of pragmatist conceptual analysis.

硃爾斯·L.科爾曼(Jules L．Coleman)，耶魯大學衛斯理·紐科曼·霍菲爾德法理學教授和哲學教授，魯特格爾斯大學(Rutgers University)哲學訪問教授，米蘭的布康尼大學(Bo—conni University)經濟分析法學訪問教授，紐約城市大學校長和教務長專傢顧問。

硃爾斯·科爾曼在紐約城市大學布魯剋林學院獲得瞭哲學和經濟學B．A．學位，在洛剋菲勒大學獲得瞭哲學PHD學位，在耶魯大學獲得瞭MSL學位。他被認為是美國最重要的法律和政治理論傢之一，用他的著作更新瞭法理學和矯正正義的全部領域。他的研究集中在幾個相關領域內。主要著作有：《原則的實踐——為法律理論的實用主義辯護》(2001)、《風險與過錯》(1992)、《市場、道德與法律》(1988)、《法律哲學》(1992)等。