Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:41:52 -0500

From: Jason Neyers

Subject: Taxonomy Article

Dear Colleagues:

Some of you might find this new article on Taxonomy interesting:

Joachim Dietrich, WHAT IS “LAWYERING”? THE CHALLENGE OF TAXONOMY The Cambridge Law Journal (2006), 65: 549-578.

It raises some interesting questions about the role of taxonomy and of interpretative legal theory and has discussions of Birks', Waddams', and Rickett's work.

One sentence though has me puzzled: the author states "even if we could conceptualise negligence law in terms of coherent principles ... it is undeniable that, in many situations, such principles will conflict" with no example of what he means. How then are they coherent, since I thought that non-contradiction is an element of coherence? Oh well, back to reading.

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Jason Neyers
January Term Director
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435

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