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Philosophy of Law

ISBN: 9780534584689 | 0534584683
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 7/23/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
This leading anthology contains legal cases and essays written by the finest scholars in legal philosophy, representing all major points of view on central topics in philosophy of law. Its primary focus is to relate traditional themes of legal philosophy to the concerns of modern society in a way that invigorates one and illuminates the other. This classic text is distinguished by its clarity, balance of topics, balance of substantive positions on controversial questions, topical relevance, imaginative use of cases and stories, and the inclusio... MORE
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PREFACEix
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF LAW1(257)
The Natural Law Tradition
8(16)
Brian Bix, "Natural Law Theory"
8(12)
Lon L. Fuller, "Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law"
20(4)
Positivism and Its Critics
24(95)
John Austin, "A Positivist Conception of Law"
24(12)
H.L.A. Hart, "A More Recent Positivist Conception of Law"
36(14)
H.L.A. Hart, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals"
50(17)
Lon L. Fuller, "Positivism and Fidelity to Law A Reply to Professor Hart"
67(15)
Ronald M. Dworkin, "The Model of Rules"
82(18)
Riggs v. Palmer
100(5)
Jules L. Coleman and Brian Leiter, "Legal Positivism"
105(14)
Law From the Perspective of the fudge
119(85)
O.W. Holmes, Jr., "The Path of the Law"
119(6)
Jerome Frank, "Legal Realism"
125(2)
Ronald Dworkin, "Integrity in Law"
127(15)
Lon L. Fuller, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers"
142(15)
John Hart Ely, "Discovering Fundamental Values"
157(15)
David Lyons, "Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning"
172(15)
Antonin Scalia, "Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws"
187(9)
Ronald Dworkin, "Comment"
196(8)
The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law
204(54)
Plato, Crito
204(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
213(8)
M.B.E. Smith, "Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law?"
221(15)
Scott J. Shapiro, "Authority"
236(22)
PART TWO: JUSTICE258(344)
Liberty
267(37)
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
267(11)
Joel Feinberg, "Offensive Nuisances"
278(15)
Gerald Dworkin, "Paternalism"
293(11)
Rights
304(29)
Joel Feinberg, "The Nature and Value of Rights"
304(9)
F.M. Kamm, "Conflicts of Rights"
313(10)
Jules L. Coleman and Jody Kraus, "Rethinking the Theory of Legal Rights"
323(10)
Justice in the Administration of the Law
333(269)
The Machinery of Justice
333(21)
John H. Langbein, "Torture and Plea Bargaining"
333(10)
Gerald Dworkin, "The Serpent Beguiled Me and I Did Eat: Entrapment and the Creation of Crime"
343(11)
Constitutional Privacy
354(25)
Griswold v. Connecticut
354(5)
Roe v. Wade
359(5)
Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey
364(4)
Bowers v. Hardwick
368(11)
Freedom of Expression and Its Limits
379(54)
Joel Feinberg, "Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion"
379(16)
Cohen v. California
395(4)
Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America
399(4)
Texas v. Johnson
403(9)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "War of Words: Critical Race Theory and the First Amendment"
412(21)
Justice, Affirmative Action, and Racial Quotas
433(23)
Thomas Nagel, "Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discrimination"
433(7)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., "The Message of Affirmative Action"
440(14)
California Constitution, Article I Declaration of Rights
454(2)
Inequality and Gender
456(34)
Kim Lane Scheppele, "The Reasonable Woman"
456(5)
State v. Rusk
461(3)
Regina v. Morgan
464(3)
State v. Kelly
467(4)
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County
471(8)
Leslie Green, "Sexuality, Authenticity, and Modernity"
479(11)
Justice and Contract
490(36)
Anthony T. Kronman, "Contract Law and Distributive Justice"
490(18)
Seana Valentine Shiffrin, "Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and Accommodation"
508(18)
Torts
526(34)
Jules Coleman and Arthur Ripstein, "Mischief and Misfortune: Annual McGi Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy"
526(20)
Stephen R. Perry, "Loss, Agency, and Responsibility for Outcomes: Three Conceptions of Corrective Justice"
546(14)
Property
560(52)
Jeremy Waldron, "Property Law"
560(14)
Robert P. Merges, "Property Rights Theory and the Commons: The Case of Scientific Research"
574(14)
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
588(14)
PART THREE: RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT602
Ascribing Responsibility
612(112)
Stephen R. Perry, "The Impossibility of General Strict Liability"
612(18)
H.L.A. Hart and A.M. Honoré, "Causation and Responsibility"
630(12)
Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Decline of Cause"
642(8)
David Lewis, "The Punishment That Leaves Something to Chance"
650(8)
John Gardner, "Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts"
658(18)
Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad Co.
676(6)
Summers v. Tice
682(4)
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
686(14)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Notes on the Indian Penal Code"
700(2)
Ernest J. Weinrib, "The Case for a Duty to Rescue"
702(22)
Defeating Responsibility
724(37)
John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, "Responsibility for Consequences"
724(15)
People v. Young
739(2)
Sanford H. Kadish and Stephen J. Schulhofer, "The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace"
741(5)
The M'Naghten Rules, The House of Lords
746(1)
The Insanity Defense, The American Law Institute
747(3)
State v. Guido
750(1)
Joel Feinberg, "What Is So Special About Mental Illness?"
751(10)
Punishment
761(93)
Joel Feinberg, "The Expressive Function of Punishment"
761(10)
Toni M. Massaro, "Shame, Culture, and American Criminal Law"
771(28)
Joel Feinberg, "The Classic Debate"
799(5)
C.L. Ten, "Fantastic Counterexamples and the Utilitarian Theory"
804(15)
Herbert Morris, "Persons and Punishment"
819(12)
Russ Shafer-Landau, "The Failure of Retributivism"
831(11)
Jeffrie G. Murphy, "Getting Even: The Role of the Victim"
842(12)
The Death Penalty
854
Furman v. Georgia
854(9)
Woodson v. North Carolina
863(10)
Ernest van den Haag, "In Defense of the Death Penalty: A Practical and Moral Analysis"
873(6)
Stephen Nathanson, "Should We Execute Those Who Deserve to Die?"
879(9)
James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, Valerie West, and Jonathan Lloyd, "Capital Attrition: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995"
888

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