March 03, 2009
Who was the most important legal philosopher of the 20th-Century
I've been having fun with (utterly unscientific and unreliable) polls on my other blogs, so here's one for this audience. Maybe we'll have a run-off, depending on the results here. Feel free to post omissions from the list below in the comments.
UPDATE (MARCH 4, 7 PM CST): Here are the results after 70 votes:
1. H.L.A. Hart (59%)
2. Joseph Raz (13%)
3. Ronald Dworkin (9%)
4. John Finnis (6%)
4. Hans Kelsen (6%)
6. None of the choices offered--someone else (4%)
7. Lon Fuller (3%)
8. Karl Llewellyn (1%)
By the way, I didn't vote for Llewellyn, I voted for Hart. Much as I enjoy Llewellyn, he's not, needless to say, a good philosopher (though not obviously worse than Fuller!). Obviously the Anglophone readership explains how Kelsen could come in behind Dworkin. I'll do another tally in a few days.
UPDATE (MARCH 7 6 PM CST): So with not quite 140 votes cast, here's my final tally:
1. H.L.A. Hart (55%)
2. Hans Kelsen (14%)
3. Joseph Raz (11%)
4. Ronald Dworkin (9%)
5. John Finnis (5%)
6. Someone not listed as a choice (3%)
7. Lon Fuller (2%)
8. Karl Llewellyn (1%)
8. Alf Ross (1%)
Congratulations to the winners! Your prize check is in the mail!
Posted by Brian Leiter on March 3, 2009 in Games | Permalink | Comments (4)
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