Is Analytic Jurisprudence ethnographically limited?

Abstract

This article aims to present the WEIRD character – acronym to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic – of the central intuitions used by Analytic Jurisprudence, providing evidence to the critique made by Leiter’s Naturalized Jurisprudence in relation to ethnographic constraints of the Jurisprudence. We conclude that the intuitions about Law used by the Analytic Jurisprudence match a style of thinking situated at the extreme analytic end of the “analytic x holistic” scale that doesn’t correspond to the pattern of all human populations, and do not allow universal inferences about the concept of Law.

Analytic Jurisprudence; intuitions; Leiter; ethnographic constraints; Naturalized Jurisprudence