The Planning Theory of Law

Based on a workshop with Scott Shapiro, this book provides a critical reading of the planning theory of law, highlighting its merits on one hand and objecting to parts of it on the other. Offers a balanced, insightful discussion of the arguments of Legality.

This collection of essays is the outcome of a workshop with Scott Shapiro on The Planning Theory of Law that took place in December 2009 at Bocconi University. It brings together a group of scholars who wrote their contributions to the workshop on a preliminary draft of Shapiro's Legality . Then, after the workshop, they wrote their final essays on the published version of the book. The contributions clearly highlight the difference of the continental and civil law perspective from the common law background of Shapiro but at the same time the volume tries to bridge the gap between the two. The essays provide a critical reading of the planning theory of law, highlighting its merits on the one hand and objecting to some parts of it on the other hand. Each contribution discusses in detail a chapter of Shapiro's book and together they cover the whole of Shapiro's theory. So the book presents a balanced and insightful discussion of the arguments of Legality .

100th edition announcement. - Authors Biographies. - Introduction; Damiano Canale & Giovanni Tuzet. - 1. Looking for the Nature of Law: On Shapiro s Challenge; Damiano Canale. - 2. The Possibility Puzzle and Legal Positivism; Francesca Poggi. - 3. What is Wrong with Legal Realism? ; Giovanni Tuzet. - 4. Rule of Recognition, Convention and Obligation. What Shapiro Can Still Learn from Hart s Mistakes; Aldo Schiavello. - 5. Legality: Between Purposes and Functions; Diego Papayannis. - 6. What Can Plans Do for Legal Theory? ; Bruno Celano. - 7. Ruling Platitudes, Old Metaphysics, and a Few Misunderstandings about Legal Positivism. ; Pierluigi Chiassoni. - 8. Theoretical Disagreements. A Restatement of Legal Positivism; Jordi Ferrer and Giovanni Battista Ratti. - 9. `What s the Plan? On Interpretation and Meta-interpretation in Scott Shapiro s Legality; Giorgio Pino.