“Law students quickly learn that normative argument is an integral part of the law school experience. And sooner or later, they are likely to encounter what is called the fact-value distinction. Of course, the relationship between fact and value is a deep and complex philosophical topic. Even a survey of the basic topics would take us far afield into the heart of metaethics and across the fields of normative theory and moral philosophy. Nonetheless, we can take a quick look at three important ideas with which every legal theorist should have a basic familiarity …” (more)
[Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Blog, 16 May]
First posted 2021-05-17 15:30:05
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