Meaning, mind and law / [edited by] Dennis Patterson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moral evaluation and conceptual analysis in jurisprudential methodology -- Dworkin on the semantics of legal and political concepts -- Wittgenstein on understanding and interpretation -- Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence : why sociologists might be interested -- Interpretation in law -- Fashionable nonsense -- Normativity and objectivity in law -- Explicating the internal point of view -- Langdell's legacy -- Wittgenstein and constitutional theory -- Conscience and the constitution -- Law's pragmatism : a theory of law as practice and narrative -- Law's practice -- Realist semantics and legal theory -- Interpretation in law : toward a reconstruction of the current debate.