Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.

1. Reason-Giving and the Law ; 2. The Standard Picture and Its Discontents ; 3. Legal Judgments as Plural Acceptance of Norms ; 4. Rule-Scepticism Restated ; 5. Can There be a Written Constitution? ; 6. The Rules of Trial, Political Morality and the Costs of Error: Or, Is Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doing More Harm than Good? ; 7. Self-Defense: The Imminence Requirement ; 8. Criminal Law, Philosophy, and Psychology: Working At the Cross-roads

The first volume in a prestigious new series Features work from an international team of leading scholars Presents cutting-edge research in the philosophy of law All papers newly written and published here for the first time

Leslie Green has visited and taught at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests include jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy and constitutional theory. Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford, 2007) and was for nearly eight years an editor of the journal Legal Theory.

The first volume in a prestigious new series Features work from an international team of leading scholars Presents cutting-edge research in the philosophy of law All papers newly written and published here for the first time