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PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

ISBN: 9780534239886 | 0534239889
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/9/1994

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Table of Contents
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PREFACExi
PART ONE: LAW1(191)
Natural Law Theory
7(24)
Norman Kretzmann
Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex: Laws on Trial in Aquinas' Court of Conscience
7(12)
Anthony D'Amato
On the Connection Between Law and Justice
19(12)
Legal Positivism's Challenge to Natural Law Theory
31(82)
John Austin
A Positivist Conception of Law, from The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832)
31(11)
H. L. A. Hart
A More Recent Positivist Conception of Law, from The Concept of Law (1961)
42(14)
H. L. A. Hart
Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals
56(17)
Lon L. Fuller
Positivism and Fidelity to Law--A Reply to Professor Hart
73(15)
Lon L. Fuller
Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law, from The Morality of Law (1964)
88(3)
Joel Feinberg
The Dilemmas of Judges Who Must Interpret "Immoral Laws"
91(22)
The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law
113(21)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, from Why We Can't Wait (1963)
113(8)
Joel Feinberg
Civil Disobedience in the Modern World
121(13)
Other Leading Theories of the Nature of Law
134(58)
Ronald M. Dworkin
The Model of Rules
134(17)
Riggs v. Palmer Court of Appeals of New York, 1889
151(5)
Ronald M. Dworkin
Natural Law Revisited
156(6)
J. L. Mackie
The Third Theory of Law
162(6)
O. W. Holmes, Jr.
The Path of the Law
168(6)
Jerome Frank
Legal Realism, from Law and the Modern Mind (1963)
174(2)
Andrew Altman
Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Dworkin
176(16)
PART TWO: LIBERTY192(152)
The Case for Self-Determination
198(11)
John Stuart Mill
The Liberal Argument, from On Liberty (1859)
198(11)
Challenges to Self-Determination: Legal Paternalism and Legal Moralism
209(29)
Gerald Dworkin
Paternalism, from Morality and the Law (1971)
209(10)
Gerald Dworkin
Paternalism: Some Second Thoughts, from Paternalism (1983)
219(4)
Patrick Devlin
Morals and the Criminal Law, from The Enforcement of Morals (1965)
223(6)
Patrick Devlin
Morals and Contemporary Social Reality, from The Enforcement of Morals (1965)
229(9)
Constitutional Privacy
238(24)
Griswold v. Connecticut United States Supreme Court, 1965
238(5)
Roe v. Wade United States Supreme Court, 1973
243(4)
Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey United States Supreme Court, 1992
247(4)
Bowers v. Hardwick United States Supreme Court, 1986
251(11)
Freedom of Expression and Its Limits
262(49)
Joel Feinberg
Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion
262(15)
Cohen v. California United States Supreme Court, 1971
277(4)
Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America Supreme Court of Illinois, 1978
281(4)
Texas v. Johnson United States Supreme Court, 1989
285(9)
Thomas C. Grey
Civil Rights Versus Civil Liberties: The Case of Discriminatory Verbal Harassment
294(17)
Principles of Constitutional Interpretation
311(33)
Robert H. Bork
The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time Bomb, from The Tempting of America (1990)
311(3)
John Hart Ely
Discovering Fundamental Values, from Democracy and Distrust (1980)
314(15)
David Lyons
Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning
329(15)
PART THREE: JUSTICE344(138)
The Machinery of Justice: Three Sample Procedural Problems
349(25)
John H. Langbein
Torture and Plea Bargaining
349(10)
Kent Greenawalt
Jury Nullification, from Conflicts of Law and Morality (1987)
359(5)
Gerald Dworkin
The Serpent Beguiled Me and I Did Eat: Entrapment and the Creation of Crime
364(10)
Justice and Compensation
374(23)
Richard Posner
The Concept of Corrective Justice in Recent Theories of Tort Law
374(11)
Jules Coleman
Corrective Justice and Wrongful Gain
385(12)
Justice and Contract
397(32)
Charles Fried
Contract As Promise, from Contract As Promise (1981)
397(11)
Robin Fox
Babies for Sale: Reflections on the Baby M Case
408(13)
Bonnie Steinbock
Surrogate Motherhood as Prenatal Adoption
421(8)
Justice, Affirmative Action, and Racial Quotas
429(22)
Thomas Nagel
Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discrimination
429(7)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
The Message of Affirmative Action
436(15)
Legal Injustices to Women
451(31)
Kim Lane Scheppele
The Reasonable Woman
451(5)
State v. Rusk Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1981
456(3)
Regina v. Morgan House of Lords, 1976
459(3)
State v. Kelly Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1984
462(4)
Larry May
John C. Hughes
Is Sexual Harassment Coercive? from Moral Rights in the Workplace (1987)
466(4)
Ellen Frankel Paul
Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases
470(4)
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County United States Supreme Court, 1981
474(8)
PART FOUR: RESPONSIBILITY482(103)
Responsibility for Results
487(40)
H. L. A. Hart
A. M. Honore
Causation and Responsibility, from Causation in the Law (1959)
487(12)
Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad Co. New York Court of Appeals, 1928
499(6)
Robert E. Keeton
The Basic Rule of Legal Cause in Negligence Cases, from Legal Cause in the Law of Torts (1963)
505(7)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
The Decline of Cause
512(8)
Richard Parker
Blame, Punishment, and the Role of Result
520(7)
Responsibility for Nonintervention
527(6)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Notes on the Indian Penal Code, from Works of Lord Macaulay (1866)
527(2)
John Kleinig
Good Samaritanism
529(4)
Some Criminal Defenses
533(52)
People v. Young New York Court of Appeals, 1962
533(2)
Lon L. Fuller
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
535(14)
Anthony D'Amato
The Speluncean Explorers: Further Proceedings
549(5)
People v. Goetz New York Court of Appeals, 1986
554(3)
Sanford H. Kadish
Stephen J. Schulhofer
The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace
557(4)
The M'Naghten Rules House of Lords, 1843
561(2)
The American Law Institute The Insanity Defense, from Model Penal Code (1956)
563(3)
Hyman Gross
Mental Abnormality as a Criminal Excuse, from A Theory of Criminal Justice (1979)
566(9)
State v. Guido New Jersey Supreme Court, 1963
575(1)
Joel Feinberg
Two Views of the Psychopathic Personality
576(9)
PART FIVE: PUNISHMENT585
What Is Legal Punishment?
592(21)
Joel Feinberg
The Expressive Function of Punishment, from Doing and Deserving (1970)
592(10)
Igor Primoratz
Punishment as Language
602(11)
What, If Anything, Justifies Legal Punishment?
613(47)
Joel Feinberg
The Classic Debate
613(5)
C. L. Ten
Fantastic Counterexamples and the Utilitarian Theory, from Crime, Guilt, and Punishment(1987)
618(14)
Michael S. Moore
The Moral Worth of Retribution
632(22)
John Rawls
Punishment, from Two Concepts of Rules
654(6)
Victims' Rights: Restitution or Vengeance?
660(63)
Randy E. Barnett
Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice
660(14)
Robert Nozick
Retributive Punishment, from Philosophical Explanations (1981)
674(3)
J. L. Mackie
Retributivism: A Test Case for Ethical Objectivity
677(8)
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Getting Even: The Role of the Victim
685(11)
Payne v. Tennessee United States Supreme Court, 1990
696(17)
David R. Dow
When Law Bows to Politics: Explaining Payne v. Tennessee
713(10)
The Death Penalty
723
Furman v. Georgia United States Supreme Court, 1972
723(9)
Woodson v. North Carolina United States Supreme Court, 1976
732(10)
Ernest van den Haag
In Defense of the Death Penalty: A Practical and Moral Analysis
742(6)
Stephen Nathanson
Should We Execute Those Who Deserve to Die? from An Eye for an Eye: The Morality of Punishing by Death (1987)
748

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