  Levenbook 1984 is a supporter of local coherence, and criticises those who, like Sartorius (1968 and 1971) and Dworkin (1977, and, although not yet written at the time of Levenbook's article, Dworkin 1986), hold that justified judicial decisions are those which best cohere with the law as a whole. According to Levenbook, champions of global coherence ignore the fact that sometimes a legally justified decision is supported by, in the sense of cohering with, principles which are distinctive of one area or branch of the law, but the principles concerned differ substantially from, and hence do not cohere well with principles from other branches of law. On this line of thinking, the judicial decision which coheres best with the principles underlying some specific field of law may not result in increased coherence of the entire system of law. That global coherence theorists may well be led to reject such a decision, and to hold that an alternative decision which coheres well with the overall system of law, but which increases incoherence locally is the more strongly justified, is, for Levenbook, a good reason to reject their theories: she contends that any plausible account of adjudication must make room for the kind of ‘area-specific coherence’ which she believes is necessary in the case of law. Raz 1994a also champions local over global coherence in adjudication, and his argument mentioned in the previous section concerning the limitations on the reforming role of courts, and the way in which this sometimes militates in favour of coherence playing a role in judicial decision making, is intended to support local coherence only. Peczenik 1994 claims that while the goal of the kind of doctrinal interpretation undertaken by legal scholars (which he refers to as ‘legal dogmatics’) is to establish the unity of an entire legal system, the judicial interpretation undertaken by judges is of a far more local variety, as it is concerned merely with the norms applicable to the case in question, and because a coherent interpretation of those norms may decrease their coherence with other legal norms.