Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly respected contemporaries such as Ronald Dworkin and Joseph Raz. The first part of the book builds on Coleman's well-known 'corrective justice' account of tort law, highlighting the sophisticated pragmatist methodology that he brings to bear on legal theory and presing further his critique of the law and economics school of legal analysis. The second part advances a new articulation of the jurisprudential view associated most closely with Coleman - Inclusive Legal Positivism. Many of Coleman's most controversial claims are here defended as part of a comprehensive new account of law as a conventional practice. The third part takes up the question whether conceptual analysis of the law - an approach that has long dominated philosophical thinking on the topic - is even possible. Rejecting recent arguments that it must be replaced by a normative or naturalized jurisprudence, Coleman defends his distinctive form of pragmatist conceptual analysis.

朱尔斯·L.科尔曼(Jules L．Coleman)，耶鲁大学卫斯理·纽科曼·霍菲尔德法理学教授和哲学教授，鲁特格尔斯大学(Rutgers University)哲学访问教授，米兰的布康尼大学(Bo—conni University)经济分析法学访问教授，纽约城市大学校长和教务长专家顾问。

朱尔斯·科尔曼在纽约城市大学布鲁克林学院获得了哲学和经济学B．A．学位，在洛克菲勒大学获得了哲学PHD学位，在耶鲁大学获得了MSL学位。他被认为是美国最重要的法律和政治理论家之一，用他的著作更新了法理学和矫正正义的全部领域。他的研究集中在几个相关领域内。主要著作有：《原则的实践——为法律理论的实用主义辩护》(2001)、《风险与过错》(1992)、《市场、道德与法律》(1988)、《法律哲学》(1992)等。