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- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- xxiv, 319 pages
- Contents
-
- Government Under Law
- Law and the Good
- p. 51.
- Assessing Aquinas
- p. 53.
- Fuller and Fidelity to Law
- p. 54.
- The
- Inner Morality of Law
- p. 54.
- Assessing Fuller's Inner Morality
- p. 3.
- p. 56.
- Law and Social Purpose
- p. 57.
- Dworkin's Interpretive Theory
- p. 58.
- Rules and Principles: The Idea of Fit
- p. 58.
- Fitting the Fourth Amendment: Privacy
- p. 59.
- Olmstead and Beyond
- Government by Rules
- p. 60.
- The
- Role of Morality
- p. 61.
- The
- Challenge of Skepticism
- p. 62.
- Assessing Dworkin
- p. 65.
- Legal Positivism: Overview
- p. 4.
- p. 66.
- Austin's Theory of Law
- p. 67.
- Law as Command
- p. 67.
- Assessing Austin
- p. 69.
- Hart: Law as Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 70.
- Types of Legal Rules
- Fair Warning and the Formal Features of Legal Rules
- p. 70.
- Legal Obligation: Government and Gunman
- p. 71.
- Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 72.
- Assessing Hart
- p. 73.
- Summary: Natural Law versus Positivism
- p. 76.
- 3.
- p. 5.
- The
- Constitution
- p. 79.
- Popular Government and the Rule of Law
- p. 79.
- The
- Undisciplined Public
- p. 79.
- The
- Constitutional Design
- Due Process
- p. 80.
- The
- "Troublesome" Provisions
- p. 82.
- The
- Supreme Court and Judicial Review
- p. 84.
- Jefferson's View
- p. 84.
- Judicial Review as Antidemocratic
- p. 6.
- p. 85.
- The
- Historical Record
- p. 86.
- Judicial Self-Restraint
- p. 86.
- Judicial Review and the Rule of Law
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Policeman
- The
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Expert Interpreter
- p. 88.
- Judicial Review and Democracy
- p. 89.
- Ely's Argument: Perfecting Democracy
- p. 89.
- Criticisms of Ely: The Political Process
- p. 91.
- Power of the People
- Ackerman's Argument: The Sovereign People
- p. 91.
- Criticisms of Ackerman: The Rule of Law
- p. 93.
- Constitutional Interpretation: Implicit Rights?
- p. 94.
- The
- Right to Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut
- p. 95.
- Criticisms of Griswold
- 1.
- p. 6.
- p. 96.
- Framers' Intent
- p. 97.
- Original Understanding
- p. 99.
- Bork's Theory
- p. 99.
- Criticisms of Bork: Naked Power Organs
- p. 100.
- Dworkin and the Constitution
- Corruption
- p. 102.
- Criticisms of Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Bork versus Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Whose Morality?
- p. 105.
- Judgment and Action
- p. 105.
- The
- p. 7.
- Supreme Court versus Society
- p. 106.
- 4.
- Private Law: Torts, Contracts, and Property
- p. 111.
- The
- Functions of Private Law
- p. 111.
- The
- Traditional Public-Private Distinction
- Vengeance
- p. 113.
- Criticisms of the Public-Private Distinction
- p. 115.
- Legal Realism and the Politics of Private Law
- p. 115.
- Property and Progress: The Labor Injunction
- p. 116.
- Assessing the Realist Challenge
- p. 117.
- The
- p. 8.
- Traditional Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 119.
- Criticisms of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 120.
- Defenses of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 122.
- Assessing Traditionalism
- p. 123.
- Subjective and Objective Approaches in Tort Law
- p. 124.
- Liberty and Prosperity
- A
- Case of Self-Defense
- p. 124.
- The
- Actual Person or the Reasonable Person?
- p. 125.
- Subcategorizing
- p. 127.
- The
- Duty to Aid
- p. 10.
- p. 128.
- The
- Common-Law Approach
- p. 128.
- The
- Ames Rule
- p. 129.
- Feinberg and the Right to Assistance
- p. 130.
- Epstein and Bright Lines
- Ancient Liberty
- p. 132.
- 5.
- Criminal Law
- p. 135.
- Torts and Crimes
- p. 135.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 135.
- Bentham's Principle of Utility
- p. 10.
- p. 135.
- The
- Utilitarian Aims of Punishment
- p. 136.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 137.
- A
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 139.
- Justice and Desert
- Liberty and Prosperity in the Modern Era
- p. 139.
- Why Punishment Is Deserved
- p. 140.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 141.
- The
- Therapeutic Model
- p. 144.
- Rehabilitation, Not Punishment
- p. 144.
- The
- p. 10.
- Criticisms of the Therapeutic Model
- p. 145.
- Amount of Punishment
- p. 147.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 147.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 148.
- A
- Hobbes and Austin: The Sovereign as Above the Law
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 148.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 149.
- Davis's Version of Retributivism
- p. 150.
- Criticisms of Davis
- p. 151.
- Mens Rea versus Strict Liability
- p. 153.
- p. 12.
- The
- Guilty Mind
- p. 153.
- Objective and Strict Liability
- p. 154.
- Strict Liability: Against
- p. 155.
- Strict Liability: For
- p. 156.
- Limits of Criminal Law
- The
- p. 157.
- The
- Public-Private Distinction
- p. 157.
- J. S. Mill and the Harm Principle
- p. 158.
- The
- Devlin-Hart Debate
- p. 161.
- 6.
- King versus Parliament
- Law and Economics
- p. 170.
- The
- Economic Analysis of Law
- p. 170.
- Economic Rationality
- p. 171.
- Rational Action
- p. 171.
- An
- p. 12.
- Example: The Rational Athlete
- p. 172.
- Rationality and Uncertainty
- p. 173.
- Economic Efficiency
- p. 173.
- Utilitarianism and Beyond
- p. 173.
- Pareto's Concepts of Efficiency
- p. 174.
- Philosophical Confusions
- The
- Limitations of Pareto's Efficiency Concepts
- p. 175.
- Kaldor, Hicks, and Posner
- p. 176.
- Scarcity and Efficiency
- p. 176.
- The
- Efficiency of the Common Law
- p. 177.
- p. 12.
- Contract Law
- p. 177.
- Negligence and the Hand Formula
- p. 179.
- Property
- p. 180.
- The
- Coase Theorem
- p. 181.
- An
- A
- Efficiency Explanation of Common Law
- p. 183.
- Posner's Argument
- p. 183.
- Criticisms of Posner
- p. 184.
- Social Morality versus Efficiency
- p. 184.
- The
- Scientific Status of Law and Economics
- Round Square?
- p. 185.
- Scientific Method
- p. 185.
- Is Law and Economics Scientific?
- p. 186.
- The
- Evaluation of Law: Should Law Maximize Wealth?
- p. 187.
- The
- Biggest Pie?
- Rule of Law
- p. 13.
- p. 187.
- Other Virtues of Wealth Maximization?
- p. 188.
- Wealth Maximization and the Poor
- p. 189.
- Political Disagreement in Law and Economics
- p. 191.
- What Kind of Market?
- p. 191.
- Conservatives versus Liberals
- Austin's Contribution
- p. 192.
- Is Efficiency a Neutral Value?
- p. 193.
- The
- Value of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Dworkin's Critique of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Taking Efficiency Seriously
- p. 195.
- p. 14.
- 7.
- Feminism and the Law
- p. 199.
- Feminism versus the Traditional View of Women
- p. 199.
- Woman's Place
- p. 199.
- The
- Feminist Rebellion
- p. 200.
- Human Nature
- Types of Feminism
- p. 201.
- Two Central Issues
- p. 201.
- Liberals, Radicals, Progressives, and Conservatives
- p. 202.
- The
- Question of Patriarchy
- p. 203.
- Discrimination and Oppression
- p. 15.
- p. 203.
- Is Patriarchy a Thing of the Past?
- p. 204.
- The
- Question of Privacy: A Radical View
- p. 205.
- The
- Problems with Privacy
- p. 206.
- Fighting "Private" Oppression
- The
- p. 206.
- Women's Labor
- p. 207.
- Abortion Rights: Beyond Privacy to Equality
- p. 208.
- Abortion and the Indigent
- p. 208.
- Equality: Eradicating Women's Oppression
- p. 209.
- Abortion Rights: A Liberal View
- Crooked Timber of Humanity
- p. 210.
- Defending the Right of Privacy
- p. 210.
- Liberal Equality
- p. 211.
- Abortion Rights: The Liberal or Radical Approach?
- p. 212.
- The
- Legal Argument
- p. 213.
- p. 16.
- The
- Moral Argument
- p. 214.
- The
- Difference Debate
- p. 215.
- Pregnancy Benefits
- p. 216.
- Special Treatment or Equal Treatment?
- p. 217.
- Republican Government
- Women's Values?
- p. 219.
- Pornography: Free Speech and Women's Rights
- p. 220.
- A
- Linchpin of Patriarchy
- p. 220.
- Protecting Pornography
- p. 221.
- Silencing Women
- p. 16.
- p. 222.
- The
- Harm of Pornography
- p. 223.
- Pornography on Trial: American Booksellers v. Hudnut
- p. 224.
- The
- Ordinance
- p. 224.
- The
- p. 1.
- Hobbes versus Kant and Madison
- Ruling: Easterbrook's Opinion
- p. 226.
- MacKinnon's Criticisms
- p. 227.
- The
- Psychology of Pornography
- p. 228.
- Evidence of Harm?
- p. 229.
- Patriarchy Revisited: The Role of Reason
- p. 17.
- p. 231.
- Beyond Statistics
- p. 231.
- Is Reason "Male"?
- p. 233.
- 8.
- Race and American Law
- p. 238.
- Race, Citizenship, and Identity
- p. 238.
- Substantive versus Legal Justice
- Jim Crow and the One-Drop Rule
- p. 239.
- Separate but Equal: The Plessy Case
- p. 241.
- A
- Reasonable Dissent from Plessy: Law and Scientific Racism
- p. 243.
- Beyond Separate but Equal: The Brown Case
- p. 245.
- The
- p. 18.
- Small Steps to Brown
- p. 245.
- Brown: Constitutional Equality
- p. 247.
- The
- Civil Rights Revolution
- p. 249.
- Beyond Litigation
- p. 249.
- Social Agitation: Martin Luther King, Jr. versus George Wallace
- The
- p. 250.
- The
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- p. 252.
- The
- Voting Rights Act: Race and Democracy
- p. 256.
- The
- Black Power Movement
- p. 258.
- Impeachment Controversy: Background
- The
- Idea of Institutional Racism
- p. 260.
- Racial Discrimination: Intent versus Disparate Impact
- p. 261.
- Critical Race Theory
- p. 264.
- Racism and the Rule of Law
- p. 266.
- Affirmative Action
- p. 19.
- p. 270.
- The
- Law and Politics of Affirmative Action
- p. 270.
- Individual Rights
- p. 273
- Power, Privacy, and Prosecution
- p. 22.
- The
- Impeachment and the Rule of Law
- Real-World Rule of Law
- p. 25.
- Political Trials
- p. 27.
- The
- Impeachment Trial
- p. 28.
- Should the Rule of Law Apply?
- p. 29.
- The
- p. 1.
- Trial of the President
- p. 29.
- The
- Role of Politics
- p. 32.
- The
- Vagueness Problem
- p. 33.
- 2.
- Law and Morality
- Arbitrary Government and the Principles of Legality
- p. 40.
- A
- Common Saying
- p. 40.
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- p. 43.
- Historical Background
- p. 43.
- Criticisms of the Trial
- p. 44.
- p. 3.
- Justifying the Trial
- p. 47.
- Assessing the Trial
- p. 48.
- Natural Law Theory: Overview
- p. 49.
- Traditional Natural Law Theory: Background
- p. 50.
- Aquinas's Theory of Law
- p. 51.
- Law, Power, and Hierarchy
- p. 284.
- Against the Rule of Law: Politics, Morality, and Law
- p. 285.
- Crits, Feminists, and Critical Race Theorists
- p. 286.
- Crits and Conservatives
- p. 287.
- Legal Reasoning: A Mainstream Account
- p. 288.
- Social Effects: Academic Values and Racial Identities
- Law and Authority
- p. 288.
- Law and Reason
- p. 289.
- Reasoning: Legal and Practical
- p. 291.
- The
- Doctrine of Precedent: Stare Decisis
- p. 291.
- Legal Reasoning: The Attack Begins
- p. 277.
- p. 292.
- Realism and Formalism
- p. 292.
- Indeterminacy
- p. 293.
- So Long, Stare Decisis
- p. 294.
- An
- Example: Hardwick's Right to Privacy?
- p. 294.
- 9.
- Clusters of Rules
- p. 295.
- Justification and Motivation
- p. 295.
- Reluctant Realists
- p. 295.
- Domesticating Realism
- p. 297.
- Legal Reasoning: The Crits Attack
- p. 297.
- Critical Legal Studies
- Law as a Patchwork
- p. 297.
- The
- Contradictions of Private Law
- p. 299.
- Law, Liberty, and Liberalism
- p. 301.
- Liberalism and the Rule of Law
- p. 301.
- Unger and the Contradictions of Liberalism
- p. 284.
- p. 302.
- The
- Mainstream versus the Crits
- p. 303.
- Critics of the Crits
- p. 303.
- Dworkin and Legal Reasoning
- p. 303.
- The
- Crits' Response
- The
- p. 306.
- Competition and Contradiction: Dworkin Replies
- p. 307.
- The
- Crits' Last Stand
- p. 309
- Crits: An Introduction
- p. 284.
- Isbn
- 9780534543525
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- Andrew Altman
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- Contents
-
- Government Under Law
- Law and the Good
- p. 51.
- Assessing Aquinas
- p. 53.
- Fuller and Fidelity to Law
- p. 54.
- The
- Inner Morality of Law
- p. 54.
- Assessing Fuller's Inner Morality
- p. 3.
- p. 56.
- Law and Social Purpose
- p. 57.
- Dworkin's Interpretive Theory
- p. 58.
- Rules and Principles: The Idea of Fit
- p. 58.
- Fitting the Fourth Amendment: Privacy
- p. 59.
- Olmstead and Beyond
- Government by Rules
- p. 60.
- The
- Role of Morality
- p. 61.
- The
- Challenge of Skepticism
- p. 62.
- Assessing Dworkin
- p. 65.
- Legal Positivism: Overview
- p. 4.
- p. 66.
- Austin's Theory of Law
- p. 67.
- Law as Command
- p. 67.
- Assessing Austin
- p. 69.
- Hart: Law as Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 70.
- Types of Legal Rules
- Fair Warning and the Formal Features of Legal Rules
- p. 70.
- Legal Obligation: Government and Gunman
- p. 71.
- Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 72.
- Assessing Hart
- p. 73.
- Summary: Natural Law versus Positivism
- p. 76.
- 3.
- p. 5.
- The
- Constitution
- p. 79.
- Popular Government and the Rule of Law
- p. 79.
- The
- Undisciplined Public
- p. 79.
- The
- Constitutional Design
- Due Process
- p. 80.
- The
- "Troublesome" Provisions
- p. 82.
- The
- Supreme Court and Judicial Review
- p. 84.
- Jefferson's View
- p. 84.
- Judicial Review as Antidemocratic
- p. 6.
- p. 85.
- The
- Historical Record
- p. 86.
- Judicial Self-Restraint
- p. 86.
- Judicial Review and the Rule of Law
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Policeman
- The
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Expert Interpreter
- p. 88.
- Judicial Review and Democracy
- p. 89.
- Ely's Argument: Perfecting Democracy
- p. 89.
- Criticisms of Ely: The Political Process
- p. 91.
- Power of the People
- Ackerman's Argument: The Sovereign People
- p. 91.
- Criticisms of Ackerman: The Rule of Law
- p. 93.
- Constitutional Interpretation: Implicit Rights?
- p. 94.
- The
- Right to Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut
- p. 95.
- Criticisms of Griswold
- 1.
- p. 6.
- p. 96.
- Framers' Intent
- p. 97.
- Original Understanding
- p. 99.
- Bork's Theory
- p. 99.
- Criticisms of Bork: Naked Power Organs
- p. 100.
- Dworkin and the Constitution
- Corruption
- p. 102.
- Criticisms of Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Bork versus Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Whose Morality?
- p. 105.
- Judgment and Action
- p. 105.
- The
- p. 7.
- Supreme Court versus Society
- p. 106.
- 4.
- Private Law: Torts, Contracts, and Property
- p. 111.
- The
- Functions of Private Law
- p. 111.
- The
- Traditional Public-Private Distinction
- Vengeance
- p. 113.
- Criticisms of the Public-Private Distinction
- p. 115.
- Legal Realism and the Politics of Private Law
- p. 115.
- Property and Progress: The Labor Injunction
- p. 116.
- Assessing the Realist Challenge
- p. 117.
- The
- p. 8.
- Traditional Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 119.
- Criticisms of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 120.
- Defenses of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 122.
- Assessing Traditionalism
- p. 123.
- Subjective and Objective Approaches in Tort Law
- p. 124.
- Liberty and Prosperity
- A
- Case of Self-Defense
- p. 124.
- The
- Actual Person or the Reasonable Person?
- p. 125.
- Subcategorizing
- p. 127.
- The
- Duty to Aid
- p. 10.
- p. 128.
- The
- Common-Law Approach
- p. 128.
- The
- Ames Rule
- p. 129.
- Feinberg and the Right to Assistance
- p. 130.
- Epstein and Bright Lines
- Ancient Liberty
- p. 132.
- 5.
- Criminal Law
- p. 135.
- Torts and Crimes
- p. 135.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 135.
- Bentham's Principle of Utility
- p. 10.
- p. 135.
- The
- Utilitarian Aims of Punishment
- p. 136.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 137.
- A
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 139.
- Justice and Desert
- Liberty and Prosperity in the Modern Era
- p. 139.
- Why Punishment Is Deserved
- p. 140.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 141.
- The
- Therapeutic Model
- p. 144.
- Rehabilitation, Not Punishment
- p. 144.
- The
- p. 10.
- Criticisms of the Therapeutic Model
- p. 145.
- Amount of Punishment
- p. 147.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 147.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 148.
- A
- Hobbes and Austin: The Sovereign as Above the Law
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 148.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 149.
- Davis's Version of Retributivism
- p. 150.
- Criticisms of Davis
- p. 151.
- Mens Rea versus Strict Liability
- p. 153.
- p. 12.
- The
- Guilty Mind
- p. 153.
- Objective and Strict Liability
- p. 154.
- Strict Liability: Against
- p. 155.
- Strict Liability: For
- p. 156.
- Limits of Criminal Law
- The
- p. 157.
- The
- Public-Private Distinction
- p. 157.
- J. S. Mill and the Harm Principle
- p. 158.
- The
- Devlin-Hart Debate
- p. 161.
- 6.
- King versus Parliament
- Law and Economics
- p. 170.
- The
- Economic Analysis of Law
- p. 170.
- Economic Rationality
- p. 171.
- Rational Action
- p. 171.
- An
- p. 12.
- Example: The Rational Athlete
- p. 172.
- Rationality and Uncertainty
- p. 173.
- Economic Efficiency
- p. 173.
- Utilitarianism and Beyond
- p. 173.
- Pareto's Concepts of Efficiency
- p. 174.
- Philosophical Confusions
- The
- Limitations of Pareto's Efficiency Concepts
- p. 175.
- Kaldor, Hicks, and Posner
- p. 176.
- Scarcity and Efficiency
- p. 176.
- The
- Efficiency of the Common Law
- p. 177.
- p. 12.
- Contract Law
- p. 177.
- Negligence and the Hand Formula
- p. 179.
- Property
- p. 180.
- The
- Coase Theorem
- p. 181.
- An
- A
- Efficiency Explanation of Common Law
- p. 183.
- Posner's Argument
- p. 183.
- Criticisms of Posner
- p. 184.
- Social Morality versus Efficiency
- p. 184.
- The
- Scientific Status of Law and Economics
- Round Square?
- p. 185.
- Scientific Method
- p. 185.
- Is Law and Economics Scientific?
- p. 186.
- The
- Evaluation of Law: Should Law Maximize Wealth?
- p. 187.
- The
- Biggest Pie?
- Rule of Law
- p. 13.
- p. 187.
- Other Virtues of Wealth Maximization?
- p. 188.
- Wealth Maximization and the Poor
- p. 189.
- Political Disagreement in Law and Economics
- p. 191.
- What Kind of Market?
- p. 191.
- Conservatives versus Liberals
- Austin's Contribution
- p. 192.
- Is Efficiency a Neutral Value?
- p. 193.
- The
- Value of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Dworkin's Critique of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Taking Efficiency Seriously
- p. 195.
- p. 14.
- 7.
- Feminism and the Law
- p. 199.
- Feminism versus the Traditional View of Women
- p. 199.
- Woman's Place
- p. 199.
- The
- Feminist Rebellion
- p. 200.
- Human Nature
- Types of Feminism
- p. 201.
- Two Central Issues
- p. 201.
- Liberals, Radicals, Progressives, and Conservatives
- p. 202.
- The
- Question of Patriarchy
- p. 203.
- Discrimination and Oppression
- p. 15.
- p. 203.
- Is Patriarchy a Thing of the Past?
- p. 204.
- The
- Question of Privacy: A Radical View
- p. 205.
- The
- Problems with Privacy
- p. 206.
- Fighting "Private" Oppression
- The
- p. 206.
- Women's Labor
- p. 207.
- Abortion Rights: Beyond Privacy to Equality
- p. 208.
- Abortion and the Indigent
- p. 208.
- Equality: Eradicating Women's Oppression
- p. 209.
- Abortion Rights: A Liberal View
- Crooked Timber of Humanity
- p. 210.
- Defending the Right of Privacy
- p. 210.
- Liberal Equality
- p. 211.
- Abortion Rights: The Liberal or Radical Approach?
- p. 212.
- The
- Legal Argument
- p. 213.
- p. 16.
- The
- Moral Argument
- p. 214.
- The
- Difference Debate
- p. 215.
- Pregnancy Benefits
- p. 216.
- Special Treatment or Equal Treatment?
- p. 217.
- Republican Government
- Women's Values?
- p. 219.
- Pornography: Free Speech and Women's Rights
- p. 220.
- A
- Linchpin of Patriarchy
- p. 220.
- Protecting Pornography
- p. 221.
- Silencing Women
- p. 16.
- p. 222.
- The
- Harm of Pornography
- p. 223.
- Pornography on Trial: American Booksellers v. Hudnut
- p. 224.
- The
- Ordinance
- p. 224.
- The
- p. 1.
- Hobbes versus Kant and Madison
- Ruling: Easterbrook's Opinion
- p. 226.
- MacKinnon's Criticisms
- p. 227.
- The
- Psychology of Pornography
- p. 228.
- Evidence of Harm?
- p. 229.
- Patriarchy Revisited: The Role of Reason
- p. 17.
- p. 231.
- Beyond Statistics
- p. 231.
- Is Reason "Male"?
- p. 233.
- 8.
- Race and American Law
- p. 238.
- Race, Citizenship, and Identity
- p. 238.
- Substantive versus Legal Justice
- Jim Crow and the One-Drop Rule
- p. 239.
- Separate but Equal: The Plessy Case
- p. 241.
- A
- Reasonable Dissent from Plessy: Law and Scientific Racism
- p. 243.
- Beyond Separate but Equal: The Brown Case
- p. 245.
- The
- p. 18.
- Small Steps to Brown
- p. 245.
- Brown: Constitutional Equality
- p. 247.
- The
- Civil Rights Revolution
- p. 249.
- Beyond Litigation
- p. 249.
- Social Agitation: Martin Luther King, Jr. versus George Wallace
- The
- p. 250.
- The
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- p. 252.
- The
- Voting Rights Act: Race and Democracy
- p. 256.
- The
- Black Power Movement
- p. 258.
- Impeachment Controversy: Background
- The
- Idea of Institutional Racism
- p. 260.
- Racial Discrimination: Intent versus Disparate Impact
- p. 261.
- Critical Race Theory
- p. 264.
- Racism and the Rule of Law
- p. 266.
- Affirmative Action
- p. 19.
- p. 270.
- The
- Law and Politics of Affirmative Action
- p. 270.
- Individual Rights
- p. 273
- Power, Privacy, and Prosecution
- p. 22.
- The
- Impeachment and the Rule of Law
- Real-World Rule of Law
- p. 25.
- Political Trials
- p. 27.
- The
- Impeachment Trial
- p. 28.
- Should the Rule of Law Apply?
- p. 29.
- The
- p. 1.
- Trial of the President
- p. 29.
- The
- Role of Politics
- p. 32.
- The
- Vagueness Problem
- p. 33.
- 2.
- Law and Morality
- Arbitrary Government and the Principles of Legality
- p. 40.
- A
- Common Saying
- p. 40.
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- p. 43.
- Historical Background
- p. 43.
- Criticisms of the Trial
- p. 44.
- p. 3.
- Justifying the Trial
- p. 47.
- Assessing the Trial
- p. 48.
- Natural Law Theory: Overview
- p. 49.
- Traditional Natural Law Theory: Background
- p. 50.
- Aquinas's Theory of Law
- p. 51.
- Law, Power, and Hierarchy
- p. 284.
- Against the Rule of Law: Politics, Morality, and Law
- p. 285.
- Crits, Feminists, and Critical Race Theorists
- p. 286.
- Crits and Conservatives
- p. 287.
- Legal Reasoning: A Mainstream Account
- p. 288.
- Social Effects: Academic Values and Racial Identities
- Law and Authority
- p. 288.
- Law and Reason
- p. 289.
- Reasoning: Legal and Practical
- p. 291.
- The
- Doctrine of Precedent: Stare Decisis
- p. 291.
- Legal Reasoning: The Attack Begins
- p. 277.
- p. 292.
- Realism and Formalism
- p. 292.
- Indeterminacy
- p. 293.
- So Long, Stare Decisis
- p. 294.
- An
- Example: Hardwick's Right to Privacy?
- p. 294.
- 9.
- Clusters of Rules
- p. 295.
- Justification and Motivation
- p. 295.
- Reluctant Realists
- p. 295.
- Domesticating Realism
- p. 297.
- Legal Reasoning: The Crits Attack
- p. 297.
- Critical Legal Studies
- Law as a Patchwork
- p. 297.
- The
- Contradictions of Private Law
- p. 299.
- Law, Liberty, and Liberalism
- p. 301.
- Liberalism and the Rule of Law
- p. 301.
- Unger and the Contradictions of Liberalism
- p. 284.
- p. 302.
- The
- Mainstream versus the Crits
- p. 303.
- Critics of the Crits
- p. 303.
- Dworkin and Legal Reasoning
- p. 303.
- The
- Crits' Response
- The
- p. 306.
- Competition and Contradiction: Dworkin Replies
- p. 307.
- The
- Crits' Last Stand
- p. 309
- Crits: An Introduction
- p. 284.
- Control code
- 43526835
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- xxiv, 319 pages
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- Contents
-
- Government Under Law
- Law and the Good
- p. 51.
- Assessing Aquinas
- p. 53.
- Fuller and Fidelity to Law
- p. 54.
- The
- Inner Morality of Law
- p. 54.
- Assessing Fuller's Inner Morality
- p. 3.
- p. 56.
- Law and Social Purpose
- p. 57.
- Dworkin's Interpretive Theory
- p. 58.
- Rules and Principles: The Idea of Fit
- p. 58.
- Fitting the Fourth Amendment: Privacy
- p. 59.
- Olmstead and Beyond
- Government by Rules
- p. 60.
- The
- Role of Morality
- p. 61.
- The
- Challenge of Skepticism
- p. 62.
- Assessing Dworkin
- p. 65.
- Legal Positivism: Overview
- p. 4.
- p. 66.
- Austin's Theory of Law
- p. 67.
- Law as Command
- p. 67.
- Assessing Austin
- p. 69.
- Hart: Law as Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 70.
- Types of Legal Rules
- Fair Warning and the Formal Features of Legal Rules
- p. 70.
- Legal Obligation: Government and Gunman
- p. 71.
- Primary and Secondary Rules
- p. 72.
- Assessing Hart
- p. 73.
- Summary: Natural Law versus Positivism
- p. 76.
- 3.
- p. 5.
- The
- Constitution
- p. 79.
- Popular Government and the Rule of Law
- p. 79.
- The
- Undisciplined Public
- p. 79.
- The
- Constitutional Design
- Due Process
- p. 80.
- The
- "Troublesome" Provisions
- p. 82.
- The
- Supreme Court and Judicial Review
- p. 84.
- Jefferson's View
- p. 84.
- Judicial Review as Antidemocratic
- p. 6.
- p. 85.
- The
- Historical Record
- p. 86.
- Judicial Self-Restraint
- p. 86.
- Judicial Review and the Rule of Law
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Policeman
- The
- p. 87.
- The
- Judiciary as Expert Interpreter
- p. 88.
- Judicial Review and Democracy
- p. 89.
- Ely's Argument: Perfecting Democracy
- p. 89.
- Criticisms of Ely: The Political Process
- p. 91.
- Power of the People
- Ackerman's Argument: The Sovereign People
- p. 91.
- Criticisms of Ackerman: The Rule of Law
- p. 93.
- Constitutional Interpretation: Implicit Rights?
- p. 94.
- The
- Right to Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut
- p. 95.
- Criticisms of Griswold
- 1.
- p. 6.
- p. 96.
- Framers' Intent
- p. 97.
- Original Understanding
- p. 99.
- Bork's Theory
- p. 99.
- Criticisms of Bork: Naked Power Organs
- p. 100.
- Dworkin and the Constitution
- Corruption
- p. 102.
- Criticisms of Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Bork versus Dworkin
- p. 104.
- Whose Morality?
- p. 105.
- Judgment and Action
- p. 105.
- The
- p. 7.
- Supreme Court versus Society
- p. 106.
- 4.
- Private Law: Torts, Contracts, and Property
- p. 111.
- The
- Functions of Private Law
- p. 111.
- The
- Traditional Public-Private Distinction
- Vengeance
- p. 113.
- Criticisms of the Public-Private Distinction
- p. 115.
- Legal Realism and the Politics of Private Law
- p. 115.
- Property and Progress: The Labor Injunction
- p. 116.
- Assessing the Realist Challenge
- p. 117.
- The
- p. 8.
- Traditional Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 119.
- Criticisms of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 120.
- Defenses of the Contract-Tort Distinction
- p. 122.
- Assessing Traditionalism
- p. 123.
- Subjective and Objective Approaches in Tort Law
- p. 124.
- Liberty and Prosperity
- A
- Case of Self-Defense
- p. 124.
- The
- Actual Person or the Reasonable Person?
- p. 125.
- Subcategorizing
- p. 127.
- The
- Duty to Aid
- p. 10.
- p. 128.
- The
- Common-Law Approach
- p. 128.
- The
- Ames Rule
- p. 129.
- Feinberg and the Right to Assistance
- p. 130.
- Epstein and Bright Lines
- Ancient Liberty
- p. 132.
- 5.
- Criminal Law
- p. 135.
- Torts and Crimes
- p. 135.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 135.
- Bentham's Principle of Utility
- p. 10.
- p. 135.
- The
- Utilitarian Aims of Punishment
- p. 136.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 137.
- A
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 139.
- Justice and Desert
- Liberty and Prosperity in the Modern Era
- p. 139.
- Why Punishment Is Deserved
- p. 140.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 141.
- The
- Therapeutic Model
- p. 144.
- Rehabilitation, Not Punishment
- p. 144.
- The
- p. 10.
- Criticisms of the Therapeutic Model
- p. 145.
- Amount of Punishment
- p. 147.
- A
- Utilitarian Approach
- p. 147.
- Criticisms of the Utilitarian Approach
- p. 148.
- A
- Hobbes and Austin: The Sovereign as Above the Law
- Retributivist Approach
- p. 148.
- Criticisms of Retributivism
- p. 149.
- Davis's Version of Retributivism
- p. 150.
- Criticisms of Davis
- p. 151.
- Mens Rea versus Strict Liability
- p. 153.
- p. 12.
- The
- Guilty Mind
- p. 153.
- Objective and Strict Liability
- p. 154.
- Strict Liability: Against
- p. 155.
- Strict Liability: For
- p. 156.
- Limits of Criminal Law
- The
- p. 157.
- The
- Public-Private Distinction
- p. 157.
- J. S. Mill and the Harm Principle
- p. 158.
- The
- Devlin-Hart Debate
- p. 161.
- 6.
- King versus Parliament
- Law and Economics
- p. 170.
- The
- Economic Analysis of Law
- p. 170.
- Economic Rationality
- p. 171.
- Rational Action
- p. 171.
- An
- p. 12.
- Example: The Rational Athlete
- p. 172.
- Rationality and Uncertainty
- p. 173.
- Economic Efficiency
- p. 173.
- Utilitarianism and Beyond
- p. 173.
- Pareto's Concepts of Efficiency
- p. 174.
- Philosophical Confusions
- The
- Limitations of Pareto's Efficiency Concepts
- p. 175.
- Kaldor, Hicks, and Posner
- p. 176.
- Scarcity and Efficiency
- p. 176.
- The
- Efficiency of the Common Law
- p. 177.
- p. 12.
- Contract Law
- p. 177.
- Negligence and the Hand Formula
- p. 179.
- Property
- p. 180.
- The
- Coase Theorem
- p. 181.
- An
- A
- Efficiency Explanation of Common Law
- p. 183.
- Posner's Argument
- p. 183.
- Criticisms of Posner
- p. 184.
- Social Morality versus Efficiency
- p. 184.
- The
- Scientific Status of Law and Economics
- Round Square?
- p. 185.
- Scientific Method
- p. 185.
- Is Law and Economics Scientific?
- p. 186.
- The
- Evaluation of Law: Should Law Maximize Wealth?
- p. 187.
- The
- Biggest Pie?
- Rule of Law
- p. 13.
- p. 187.
- Other Virtues of Wealth Maximization?
- p. 188.
- Wealth Maximization and the Poor
- p. 189.
- Political Disagreement in Law and Economics
- p. 191.
- What Kind of Market?
- p. 191.
- Conservatives versus Liberals
- Austin's Contribution
- p. 192.
- Is Efficiency a Neutral Value?
- p. 193.
- The
- Value of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Dworkin's Critique of Efficiency
- p. 194.
- Taking Efficiency Seriously
- p. 195.
- p. 14.
- 7.
- Feminism and the Law
- p. 199.
- Feminism versus the Traditional View of Women
- p. 199.
- Woman's Place
- p. 199.
- The
- Feminist Rebellion
- p. 200.
- Human Nature
- Types of Feminism
- p. 201.
- Two Central Issues
- p. 201.
- Liberals, Radicals, Progressives, and Conservatives
- p. 202.
- The
- Question of Patriarchy
- p. 203.
- Discrimination and Oppression
- p. 15.
- p. 203.
- Is Patriarchy a Thing of the Past?
- p. 204.
- The
- Question of Privacy: A Radical View
- p. 205.
- The
- Problems with Privacy
- p. 206.
- Fighting "Private" Oppression
- The
- p. 206.
- Women's Labor
- p. 207.
- Abortion Rights: Beyond Privacy to Equality
- p. 208.
- Abortion and the Indigent
- p. 208.
- Equality: Eradicating Women's Oppression
- p. 209.
- Abortion Rights: A Liberal View
- Crooked Timber of Humanity
- p. 210.
- Defending the Right of Privacy
- p. 210.
- Liberal Equality
- p. 211.
- Abortion Rights: The Liberal or Radical Approach?
- p. 212.
- The
- Legal Argument
- p. 213.
- p. 16.
- The
- Moral Argument
- p. 214.
- The
- Difference Debate
- p. 215.
- Pregnancy Benefits
- p. 216.
- Special Treatment or Equal Treatment?
- p. 217.
- Republican Government
- Women's Values?
- p. 219.
- Pornography: Free Speech and Women's Rights
- p. 220.
- A
- Linchpin of Patriarchy
- p. 220.
- Protecting Pornography
- p. 221.
- Silencing Women
- p. 16.
- p. 222.
- The
- Harm of Pornography
- p. 223.
- Pornography on Trial: American Booksellers v. Hudnut
- p. 224.
- The
- Ordinance
- p. 224.
- The
- p. 1.
- Hobbes versus Kant and Madison
- Ruling: Easterbrook's Opinion
- p. 226.
- MacKinnon's Criticisms
- p. 227.
- The
- Psychology of Pornography
- p. 228.
- Evidence of Harm?
- p. 229.
- Patriarchy Revisited: The Role of Reason
- p. 17.
- p. 231.
- Beyond Statistics
- p. 231.
- Is Reason "Male"?
- p. 233.
- 8.
- Race and American Law
- p. 238.
- Race, Citizenship, and Identity
- p. 238.
- Substantive versus Legal Justice
- Jim Crow and the One-Drop Rule
- p. 239.
- Separate but Equal: The Plessy Case
- p. 241.
- A
- Reasonable Dissent from Plessy: Law and Scientific Racism
- p. 243.
- Beyond Separate but Equal: The Brown Case
- p. 245.
- The
- p. 18.
- Small Steps to Brown
- p. 245.
- Brown: Constitutional Equality
- p. 247.
- The
- Civil Rights Revolution
- p. 249.
- Beyond Litigation
- p. 249.
- Social Agitation: Martin Luther King, Jr. versus George Wallace
- The
- p. 250.
- The
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- p. 252.
- The
- Voting Rights Act: Race and Democracy
- p. 256.
- The
- Black Power Movement
- p. 258.
- Impeachment Controversy: Background
- The
- Idea of Institutional Racism
- p. 260.
- Racial Discrimination: Intent versus Disparate Impact
- p. 261.
- Critical Race Theory
- p. 264.
- Racism and the Rule of Law
- p. 266.
- Affirmative Action
- p. 19.
- p. 270.
- The
- Law and Politics of Affirmative Action
- p. 270.
- Individual Rights
- p. 273
- Power, Privacy, and Prosecution
- p. 22.
- The
- Impeachment and the Rule of Law
- Real-World Rule of Law
- p. 25.
- Political Trials
- p. 27.
- The
- Impeachment Trial
- p. 28.
- Should the Rule of Law Apply?
- p. 29.
- The
- p. 1.
- Trial of the President
- p. 29.
- The
- Role of Politics
- p. 32.
- The
- Vagueness Problem
- p. 33.
- 2.
- Law and Morality
- Arbitrary Government and the Principles of Legality
- p. 40.
- A
- Common Saying
- p. 40.
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- p. 43.
- Historical Background
- p. 43.
- Criticisms of the Trial
- p. 44.
- p. 3.
- Justifying the Trial
- p. 47.
- Assessing the Trial
- p. 48.
- Natural Law Theory: Overview
- p. 49.
- Traditional Natural Law Theory: Background
- p. 50.
- Aquinas's Theory of Law
- p. 51.
- Law, Power, and Hierarchy
- p. 284.
- Against the Rule of Law: Politics, Morality, and Law
- p. 285.
- Crits, Feminists, and Critical Race Theorists
- p. 286.
- Crits and Conservatives
- p. 287.
- Legal Reasoning: A Mainstream Account
- p. 288.
- Social Effects: Academic Values and Racial Identities
- Law and Authority
- p. 288.
- Law and Reason
- p. 289.
- Reasoning: Legal and Practical
- p. 291.
- The
- Doctrine of Precedent: Stare Decisis
- p. 291.
- Legal Reasoning: The Attack Begins
- p. 277.
- p. 292.
- Realism and Formalism
- p. 292.
- Indeterminacy
- p. 293.
- So Long, Stare Decisis
- p. 294.
- An
- Example: Hardwick's Right to Privacy?
- p. 294.
- 9.
- Clusters of Rules
- p. 295.
- Justification and Motivation
- p. 295.
- Reluctant Realists
- p. 295.
- Domesticating Realism
- p. 297.
- Legal Reasoning: The Crits Attack
- p. 297.
- Critical Legal Studies
- Law as a Patchwork
- p. 297.
- The
- Contradictions of Private Law
- p. 299.
- Law, Liberty, and Liberalism
- p. 301.
- Liberalism and the Rule of Law
- p. 301.
- Unger and the Contradictions of Liberalism
- p. 284.
- p. 302.
- The
- Mainstream versus the Crits
- p. 303.
- Critics of the Crits
- p. 303.
- Dworkin and Legal Reasoning
- p. 303.
- The
- Crits' Response
- The
- p. 306.
- Competition and Contradiction: Dworkin Replies
- p. 307.
- The
- Crits' Last Stand
- p. 309
- Crits: An Introduction
- p. 284.
- Control code
- 43526835
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Extent
- xxiv, 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780534543525
- Lccn
- 00025236
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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