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- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Hohfeld at the Crossroads
- Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
- Selected Personal Papers of Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
- Part I Philosophy of Jural Relations
- 1 Hohfeld on Legal Language
- 2 Rights Correlativity
- 3 Hohfeld and Rules
- 4 Logic and the Life of the Law (Professor): A Logocratic Lesson from Hohfeld
- Part II Hohfeld and Property
- Part III Hohfeld and Equity
- Part IV Hohfeldian Complexities
- Part V Hohfeld and Society
- Index
4 - Logic and the Life of the Law (Professor): A Logocratic Lesson from Hohfeld
from Part I - Philosophy of Jural Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Hohfeld at the Crossroads
- Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
- Selected Personal Papers of Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
- Part I Philosophy of Jural Relations
- 1 Hohfeld on Legal Language
- 2 Rights Correlativity
- 3 Hohfeld and Rules
- 4 Logic and the Life of the Law (Professor): A Logocratic Lesson from Hohfeld
- Part II Hohfeld and Property
- Part III Hohfeld and Equity
- Part IV Hohfeldian Complexities
- Part V Hohfeld and Society
- Index
Summary
This chapter is an essay, literally an attempt, to present and solve a puzzle about Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld. In addition to being a doctrinal legal scholar, he was – and is justly renowned for his work as – a legal theorist, legal philosopher, and logician operating without, but anticipating, the formal grammar of logic (deontic logic, specifically1). Given the huge influence of his work, he had surprisingly few publications, resulting in a high yield of impact per page – and, indeed, per year of his short life.2 Wesley Hohfeld was also a law professor who had difficulty getting his students to see the value of his method as a tool for learning and mastering legal argument.
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- Wesley Hohfeld A Century LaterEdited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries, pp. 157 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022