{"id":5931,"date":"2023-04-04T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2023-04-04T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T19:14:03","slug":"barzun-on-taking-experience-seriously-a-comment-on-professor-zipurskys-benjamin-cardozo-and-american-natural-law-theory-cbarzun-uvalaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/barzun-on-taking-experience-seriously-a-comment-on-professor-zipurskys-benjamin-cardozo-and-american-natural-law-theory-cbarzun-uvalaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Barzun on Taking Experience Seriously: A Comment on Professor Zipursky&#8217;s &#8220;Benjamin Cardozo and American Natural Law Theory&#8221; @cbarzun @UVALaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4342793&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law%3Apositive%3Apolitical%3Atheory%3Aejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taking Experience Seriously: A Comment on Professor Zipursky\u2019s \u201cBenjamin Cardozo and American Natural Law Theory\u201d<\/a> as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-12. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This short essay considers Benjamin Zipursky\u2019s intriguing effort to identify a tradition of \u201cAmerican natural law theory\u201d that links Benjamin Cardozo to Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin. After a few nitpicks, the essay wholeheartedly endorses Professor Zipursky\u2019s suggestion that the analytic core of this tradition is the \u201cchallenging idea that the social life that grounds law is at once factually real and normatively fertile.\u201d I aim to build on Professor Zipursky\u2019s account by arguing (1) that the tradition goes back far earlier, at least to James Wilson\u2019s Lectures on Law; and (2) that Dworkin offers only one interpretation of that \u201cchallenging idea.\u201d The bulk of the essay is thus devoted to my ongoing (and as yet wholly unsuccessful) effort to convey why Ronald Dworkin\u2019s theory of adjudication, despite its obvious power and intuitive appeal, contains a devastating defect, namely that it cannot give an adequate account of genuine progress (or lack thereof) in law or society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Taking Experience Seriously: A Comment on Professor Zipursky\u2019s \u201cBenjamin Cardozo and American Natural Law Theory\u201d as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[489,519],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-philosophy","tag-law-and-philosophy","tag-legal-philosophy"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1xF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}