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Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2003 Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging Lawrence B. Solum Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/880 http://ssrn.com/abstract=310417 34 Metaphilosophy 178-213 (2003) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons , Judges Commons , Jurisprudence Commons , and the Legal Theory Commons CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Georgetown Law Scholarly Commons

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Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Law Center

Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW

2003

Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging

Lawrence B. Solum Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected]

This paper can be downloaded free of charge from:

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/880

http://ssrn.com/abstract=310417

34 Metaphilosophy 178-213 (2003)

This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub

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