The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions | 
| Author: Peter Suber
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 254716
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0415185467
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.1
EAN: 9780415185462
ASIN: 0415185467
Publication Date: December 8, 1998
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The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon Fuller first appeared in the Harvard Law Review in 1949. It has since become the most famous fictitious legal case in the US and is used widely by law schools. The case revolves around an episode in the year 4,300. A band of explorers become trapped in a cave and are forced to cannibalize a member of their team. When they are rescued, five Supreme Court judges provide opinions on what should be done with them. Peter Suber has added nine new opinions along feminist, communitarian, economic, constructionist, postmodern theories of law. The complete Fuller article is included in the beginning of the book.
Why read this book? One reason is to get beyond sloganeering about "judicial activism" and "activist judges". The book is an enjoyable and even-handed way to understand what the debate is about. It doesn't tell you what to think, but illustrates the contending positions and lets you think for yourself. It will show you how judgeswith different moral and political beliefs interpret written law, how they use precedents, how they conceive the proper role of judges, how they conceive the relationship between law and morality, and how they defend their judicial practices against criticism. It anchors all of this in a Supreme Court hearing of a gripping, concrete case on which real people disagree. (Challenge: Take any view of how judges should interpret law, especially any view that makes it sound easy, and try it out on this case. How well can it respect the facts and law? How well can it answer the objections from judges who take other views? How well does it deliver justice?) The book uses no jargon and assumes no prior knowledge of law or legal philosophy.
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 Excellent January 19, 2007
The best way to have a solid approach to the difficult world of the law
 The Case of the Speluncean Explorers August 24, 2006
It's a fantastic account of legal thoughts in fictional form. But I am not sure whether people who are not interested in legal philosopy would like it.
Reflections on the nature of law April 12, 2000
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
On a very superficial reading of the book, I guess it is possible to classify it as a powerful and frightening thriller. However this is certainly not the purpose of the book. "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers" is a powerful inquiry into the nature of law. These nine new opinions added by Peter Suber compose a rich increment to the original book, keeping the original work of Lon Fuller up to date with the contemporary debates in the philosophy of law.
its a thinking boock to people that loves law! November 20, 1999
0 out of 23 found this review helpful
now,i dont have time to write about it..........sorry
Terrific, but sometimes scary, book... August 25, 1999
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book tells a story that is increasingly touching and powerful:a group of friends decide to explore a cave, but when everything goes wrong, they are forced to create a new law inside the place in order to survive.By doing so, they forget the crowd of people outside who are trying to save them, and in this opressive and dark place, they will have to do something terrible. Lon Fuller sets a tense and hair-raising climate, in which the characters will have to play a deadly game in order to choose the one who is going to be killed, because this is the only way they may scape, by eating someone, because the food ran out. Although this book is very interesting, I must say that it is also VERY frightening, and the experience that you will have here will be very similar to the one that those kids from The Blair Witch Project had, the sensation of loss.I study law, and my teacher told to the class that we should all read it, because it also brings a lot of informations about how the justice works, but what will always be reminded by anyone who read this book is the fear that Lon Fuller develops.Lon Fuller isn't Stephen King, but, boy, here he writes something that is poweful and thrilling...
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