Naturalizing Jurisprudence gathers together Brian Leiter's most influential essays on the subject of American Legal Realism. The essays provide an overview of Leiter's redefinition of Legal Realism and its relationship with other models of legal and philosophical thought, from naturalism in philosophy to Critical Legal Studies.

Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence ; PART I: AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM AND ITS CRITICS ; 1. Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence ; 2. Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered ; 3. Is There an "American" Jurisprudence? ; PART II: NATURALIZING JURISPRUDENCE ; 4. Legal Realism, Hard Positivism, and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis ; 5. Why Quine is Not a Postmodernist ; 6. Naturalism and Naturalized Jurisprudence ; 7. Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence ; PART III: NATURALISM, MORALITY, AND OBJECTIVITY ; 8. Moral Facts and Best Explanations ; 9. Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication ; 10. Law and Objectivity

This book will confirm Brian Leiter's place in the front rank of legal theorists in the world today. Leiter is not just someone who writes well about what others have said. He has carved out a new path in legal theory, and set new standards for critical analysis and insight along the way.

`This book will confirm Brian Leiter's place in the front rank of legal theorists in the world today. Leiter is not just someone who writes well about what others have said. He has carved out a new path in legal theory, and set new standards for critical analysis and insight along the way.' Jeremy Horder, Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Criminal Law, Oxford University `Brian Leiter is one of the leading proponents of the use and application of so-called 'naturalistic developments' in contemporary philosophy to central questions in analytic jurisprudence. He is also arguably the leading philosophical interpreter of legal realism. In Naturalizing Jurisprudence, he collects many of his most important essays on these topics, organized by theme, and presents previously unpublished responses to critics. The result is a work that goes well beyond the individual essays to present a trenchant, multi-faceted and mutually-reinforcing set of challenges to core views and methodologies that are prevalent in the field. In an important sense, the book is also agenda setting... This is thus an important book by one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time.' Robin Bradley Kar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009

Provides a definitive philosophical interpretation of American Legal Realism, one of the most influential schools of modern legal thought, and its relationship with other models, including legal positivism and Critical Legal Studies Collects and revises Brian Leiter's most influential essays in one volume, including Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered, and includes postscripts in which Leiter replies to criticisms of his work Offers a unique insight into naturalism, a core debate in modern philosophy, and the foreshadowing of the naturalist school in the work of early American legal realists

Provides a definitive philosophical interpretation of American Legal Realism, one of the most influential schools of modern legal thought, and its relationship with other models, including legal positivism and Critical Legal Studies Collects and revises Brian Leiter's most influential essays in one volume, including Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered, and includes postscripts in which Leiter replies to criticisms of his work Offers a unique insight into naturalism, a core debate in modern philosophy, and the foreshadowing of the naturalist school in the work of early American legal realists