Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "metaethics" concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality. Analogously, the branch of contemporary philosophy of law that is often called "general jurisprudence" deals with certain second order questions about law- questions not in the law, but rather ones about our thought and talk about the law, and how legal facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality. Put more roughly (and using an alternative spatial metaphor), metaethics concerns a range of foundational questions about ethics, whereas general jurisprudence concerns analogous questions about law. As these characterizations suggest, the two sub-disciplines have much in common, and could be thought to run parallel to each other. Yet, the connections between the two are currently mostly ignored by philosophers, or at least under-scrutinized. The new essays collected in this book are aimed at changing this state of affairs. Dimensions of Normativity collects together works by metaethicists and legal philosophers that address a number of issues that are of common interest, with the goal of accomplishing a new rapprochement between the two sub-disciplines.

List of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh1. Peter Railton, University of Michigan'We'll see you in court!': The Rule of Law as an Explanatory and Normative Kind2. Nicholas Southwood, Australian National UniversityLaw as Conventional Norms3. David Copp, University of California, DavisLegal Teleology: A Naturalist Account of the Normativity of Law4. David Enoch, Hebrew University of JerusalemIs General Jurisprudence Interesting?5. Kathyrn Lindeman, Saint Louis UniversityLegal Metanormativity: Lessons for and from Constitutivist Accounts in the Philosophy of Law6. David Plunkett, Dartmouth CollegeRobust Normativity, Morality, and Legal Positivism7. Mitchell Berman, University of PennsylvaniaOf Law and Other Artificial Normative Systems8. George Letsas, University College LondonLaw's Full-Blooded Normativity9. Stephen Finlay, University of Southern CaliforniaDefining Normativity10. Kevin Toh, University College LondonLegal Philosophy ? la carte11. Brian Leiter, University of ChicagoTheoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look12. Teresa Marques, Logos / University of BarcelonaHybrid Dispositionalism and the Law13. Alex Silk, University of BirminghamNormativity in Language and Law14. Katharina Nieswandt, Concordia UniversityAuthority and Interest in the Theory of Right15. Lu?s Duarte d'Almeida, University of EdinburghOn the Legal Syllogism16. Sam Shpall, University of SydneyDworkin's Literary Analogy17. Connie Rosati, University of ArizonaConstitutional RealismIndex