Introduction Thomas Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Thiago Lopes Decat, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
PART I
ON THE VALUE OF THE RULE OF LAW
1. Fidelity, Accountability and Trust: Tensions at the Heart of the Rule of Law Gerald J Postema, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
2. Equal Concern and Respect as the Foundation of Postema’s Notion of the Rule of Law Franklin M Dutra, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
PART II
LEGAL REASONING, INTEGRITY AND PROTESTANT INTERPRETATION
3. Postema’s Account of Integrity Barbara Baum Levenbook, North Carolina State University, USA
4. Revisiting the Idea of Protestant Interpretation: Towards Reconciliation between Dworkin and Postema Thomas Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
5. Postema, Dworkin, and the Question of Meaning Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University, USA
6. Protestant Interpretation, Conventions, and Legal TruthBrian H Bix, University of Minnesota, USA
PART III
ANALOGICAL REASONING IN LAW
7. Some Inferentialist Remarks on Postema’s Conception of Analogical Thinking in Law Thiago Lopes Decat, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
8. Postema on Analogies in Law Fábio Perin Shecaira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PART IV
METHODOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF JURISPRUDENCE
9. Postema on Hart: The Illusion of Value-Neutrality Margaret Martin, Western University, Canada
10. Analytic Jurisprudence in Time Dan Priel, York University, Canada
11. How Postema’s Jurisprudence as Sociable Science is Like Dworkin’s Interpretivism: On Conceptual Analysis in Legal Theory Saulo de Matos, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
PART V
POSTEMA’S ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL THEORIES
12. In Defence of a Thin Concept of Law Andrea Faggion, State University of Londrina, Brazil
13. Philosophical and Psychological Distinctions between Presumptive Positivism and Rule-Sensitive Particularism Guilherme da FCF de Almeida Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Noel Struchiner, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14. Interview with Professor Gerald Postema Thomas Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, César Serbena, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil and Natalina Stamile, University of Bergamo, Italy