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57 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/saclr57 and id is 1 raw text is: A STRAW MAN REVISITED: RESETTLING THE SCORE BETWEEN H.L.A. HART AND SCANDINAVIAN LEGAL REALISM Jakob v. H. Holtermann* Introduction ..................2...... ................2 I. Hart's Objection # 1: Habits and Social Rules and the Internal and External Aspects of Social Rules ......... .......... 5 II. Ross on the InternalI-External, Distinction ....... .......... 6 III. Hart's Objection # 2: the Problem With Feelings; or how Ross fundamentally misinterprets the internal aspects of social rules ...........1.........................1 IV. Ross on the Internal2-External2: Norm-Expressive and Norm- Descriptive Propositions ............................... 13 A. Sacrificing Empiricism? ......................... 18 B. Dispensing with Ought-Propositions in the Analysis of Legal Thinking? ............................. 20 C. Misrepresenting Valid Law in the Mouths of Judges?...... 21 D. On Ross's Misplaced Affection for the Battle-Cry 'Meaningless' .............................. 24 E. Accepting Social Rules vs. Feeling that they are Socially Binding..................... .............. 28 Conclusion-and beyond: on the Real Difference between Ross's Legal Realism and Hart's Legal Positivism .................. 33 Associate Professor in Jurisprudence, Danish Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. I thank Shai Dothan, Andreas Ehlers, Brian Leiter, Mikael Rask Madsen, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Dan Priel, Urska Sadl, and Torben Spaak for many instructive conversations and comments. I thank participants at the Max Weber Lectures at the European University Institute Florence 2016, A Bite of Theory Seminar Series at University of London Queen Mary 2014, Research Seminar in Legal Theory at Lund University 2013, the ELPP Research seminar series at Aarhus University 2013. This research is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, grant number DNRF 105. 1

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