A Reply to Five Friends |
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| Authors: | Frederick Schauer |
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| Institution: | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USAThe symposium of which this reply is part was held at Bocconi University, Milan, on October 2, 2014, and appears in the previous edition of this Journal. I am grateful to Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet, both of Bocconi University, and to Nicoletta Ladavac, of Centre Themis, Geneva, for conceiving, planning, sponsoring, and conducting such a stimulating event. |
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| Abstract: | For an academic, there is no greater reward than having one's scholarship taken seriously. The five distinguished scholars who have contributed to this symposium on The Force of Law (Schauer 2015 ) have done just that, with varying degrees of agreement and disagreement, praise and criticism. But even critical commentary, and perhaps especially critical commentary, is evidence of serious engagement. More importantly, the commentaries contained here have advanced our understanding of law in valuable ways. I respond to each in this reply, but with full acknowledgment that my responses cannot do justice to the full breadth of their contributions and challenges. My hope is not that I will persuade readers that I am correct and my critics mistaken, but rather that the reader who absorbs both the challenges and my response will come away with a greater understanding of the issues that The Force of Law seeks to place on the agenda of contemporary jurisprudence. |
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