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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Bentham's Theory of Adjudication

FAIN: FT-13991-78

Gerald J. Postema
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)

To work on publication of a definitive edition of Bentham's collected works. Project will focus on an area of Bentham's legal thought which as yet has not been extensively discussed by scholars; his theory of adjudication. This topic is of interest because it lies at a crucial intersection of his Utilitarianism and his Legal Positivism. Project will encompass a critical study of Bentham’s theory of judicial reasoning. His positive views regarding proper judicial method can only be understood against the background of his repeated attacks on Common Law.