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  1. Practical reason and the ontology of statutes.Steven Walt - 1996 - Law and Philosophy 15 (3):227 - 255.
    A common working assumption of theories of statutory interpretation is that the object of interpretation is uncontroversial. It is assumed that dispute only centers on the epistemics of interpretation. The assumption is unsound. Theories of statutory interpretation are importantly different from other sorts of theories. The subject matter of other sorts of theories can be identified uncontroversially. In the case of statutory interpretation, the object of interpretation is controversial. What counts as the object of interpretation therefore needs specification. Without the (...)
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  • The Lawyer as Parent: Sympathy, Care and Character in Lawyers' Ethics.Reid Mortensen - 2009 - Legal Ethics 12 (1):1.
  • Motivación de Los hechos: Reflexiones sobre las diligencias para Mejor proveer.Roberto Lara Chagoyán - 2011 - Isonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Del Derecho 35.
    La motivación de los hechos se ha convertido en los últimos años en un tema de gran relevancia, especialmente porque empieza a ser analizado no tanto desde las herramientas tradicionales del Derecho Procesal sino desde la epistemología aplicada al trabajo de los jueces. En este trabajo, se presenta una serie de reflexiones a propósito de un medio de prueba cuyo uso por los tribunales constitucionales puede redundar en la construcción de la premisa fáctica a partir de criterios materiales: las diligencias (...)
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  • Professional Responsibility, Misconduct and Practical Reason.Chris Clark - 2007 - Ethics and Social Welfare 1 (1):56-75.
    This paper considers the accountability of professionals who are involved in situations of the failure of their organization to perform its expected role properly; the case of infant Caleb Ness, who died despite the surveillance of welfare agencies, is taken as an illustration. Following Bovens (?The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998), it is accepted that there is an irreducible element of individual personal responsibility when preventable organizational failures occur through professional incompetence (...)
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