never-never land. In the reality of a concrete context, we are able to grasp the point of a text without slipping into an infinite regress bereft of meaning. 73 Moreover, neither traditions nor prejudices are mere mental forms or ideas that can be replaced by simply imagining different forms or ideas. Prejudices and interests often are learned or absorbed in a deep sense; they become embodied i...

J. Ferrer Beltrán et al. (eds.), Neutrality and Theory of Law, Law and Philosophy Library 106, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6067-7_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 It is a commonplace among scholars of general jurisprudence that a central goal—perhaps the central goal, or perhaps even the only goal—of general jurisprudence is to use the tools of philosophical analysis as a way of h...

Colorado and Pennsylvania, like parallel universes, provide strikingly different examples of how external forces affect the evolution of oil and gas conservation jurisprudence originating from a common starting point. This jurisprudence includes both “Classical” oil and gas conservation—measures to prevent waste of the oil and gas resource, and “Values” oil and gas conservation—measures that ad...

* Professor in Jurisprudence, Department of Law, Uppsala University (Sweden). This article reports research carried out under the auspices of The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. I would like to thank Uta Bindreiter and an anonymous reviewer for Law and Philosophy for helpful comments on this article. I would also like to thank Brian Bix, the participants in the advanced seminar in pract...