  As several commentators have noted (see Kress 1984; Marmor 1992; Raz 1994a), coherence theories, long influential in other areas of philosophy (see, for example, the entries on the  coherence theory of truth  and coherentist theories of epistemic justification) have more recently found their way into the philosophy of law (for a general survey of coherence theories in law which also considers them in the context of coherence theories of truth, justified belief, ethics and justice, see Kress 1996). While this migration may be attributed in part to the frequent influence of the general philosophical climate upon the intellectual weather systems of jurisprudential theorising, it also makes sense to ask whether there is something about the nature of law which makes it particularly ripe for explanation via coherence accounts. For example, those commentators who view Ronald Dworkin's theory of law as integrity as a coherence account appear to answer this question in the affirmative (see e.g. Kress 1984; Hurley 1989): coherence, in the sense of interpreting the law as speaking with one voice as integrity requires, is a value which is supposed to have special relevance in the legal realm, in terms of the role which it should play in guiding judges seeking to interpret the law correctly. It has also been noted that features of the law such as the doctrine of precedent, arguments from analogy, and the requirement that like cases be treated alike seem particularly apt to be illuminated via some kind of coherence explanation. (See Kress 1984. Raz 1994a notes the temptation here, but contends that there is nothing inherent in arguments from analogy or in the requirement that like cases be treated alike which demands that they be understood in terms of a coherence account of adjudication. On the role of arguments from analogy in legal reasoning more generally, see Weinreb 2005, and also the entry  precedent and analogy in legal reasoning.)  Moreover, the idea of coherence as a special virtue of interpretation in legal reasoning plays an important role in the work of several major continental legal philosophers (see e.g. Peczenik 1989; Alexy 1989; Aarnio 1987; Alexy &amp; Peczenik 1990). 