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As an elementary introduction to some methodological issues that have figured prominently in recent debates among legal philosophers, Evaluation and Legal Theory is quite serviceable. In fact, given that undergraduate Jurisprudence students tend to pay far too little attention to methodological questions, the book might turn out to be valuable within its limited objectives. To be sure, even within those modest objectives the volume suffers from some confusion, as will become plain below. Indeed, especially in Dickson’s discussions of John Finnis and Frederick Schauer, the confusion occasionally amounts to serious distortion. Any recommendation of this book to one’s students should be accompanied by prominent caveats. Nevertheless, if Dickson’s lucid introduction helps to draw the attention of undergraduates to certain important issues that they would probably otherwise have ignored, it will prove to be worthwhile.