Readings in the Philosophy of Law

by Arthur, John; Shaw, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780130277411
• ISBN10: 013027741X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For sophomore/junior courses in Philosophy of Law. This anthology of classical and contemporary philosophical and legal essays and legal cases focuses on legal philosophy as its own subjectrather than as an outgrowth of social or political philosophy or applied ethics. The essays focus on how law is organized and the particular philosophical issues that law raises. The book requires students to think through actual debatesmany of them still live in the courts.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Law in Action
The Practice of Law
Lawyers' Ethics in an Adversary System	3	(9)
Monroe H. Freedman
Building Power and Breaking Images: Critical Legal Theory and the Practice of Law	12	(5)
Peter Gabel
Paul Harris
The Lawyer as Friend	17	(9)
Charles Fried
The Lost Lawyer	26	(8)
Anthony Kronman
The Rule of Law
Magnitude and Importance of Legal Science	34	(3)
David Dudley Field
Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law	37	(6)
Lon Fuller
The Problem of the Grudge Informer	43	(4)
Lon Fuller
Grudge Informers and the Rule of Law	47	(2)
H. L. A. Hart
The Rule of Law and Its Virtues	49	(7)
Joseph Raz
The Moral Force of Law
Crito	56	(7)
Plato
The Justification of Civil Disobedience	63	(8)
John Rawls
On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience	71	(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Elements of Legal Reasoning
On Interpretation: The Adultery Clause of the Ten Commandments	78	(3)
Sanford Levinson
Stare Decisis: The Use of Precedent	81	(9)
C. Gordon Post
Rules of Interpretation	90	(2)
William Blackstone
A Case Study in Interpretation: The Mann Act	92	(5)
Edward H. Levi
Cases Interpreting the Mann Act	97	(6)
Can a Murderer Inherit?	103	(8)
Part II The Nature of Law
Natural Law and Legal Positivism: Classical Perspectives
Summa Theologica	111	(6)
Thomas Aquinas
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined	117	(8)
John Austin
Formalism and Legal Realism
Preface to Cases on the Law of Contracts	125	(1)
Christopher Columbus Langdell
A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws	126	(3)
Joseph H. Beale
The Path of the Law	129	(4)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Realism and the Law	133	(8)
Jerome Frank
Interpretation as Formal	141	(6)
Tony Honore
The Contemporary Debate: Hart versus Dworkin
Positivism and Separation of Law and Morals	147	(9)
H. L. A. Hart
Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules	156	(4)
H. L. A. Hart
The Model of Rules	160	(10)
Ronald Dworkin
``Natural'' Law Revisited	170	(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Law and Economics
The Economic Approach to Law	177	(6)
Richard A. Posner
Law and Economics: An Analysis and Critique	183	(13)
Andrew Altman
Critical Legal Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence
Critical Legal Studies	196	(9)
Robert W. Gordon
Toward a Theory of Law and Patriarchy	205	(7)
Janet Rifkin
Jurisprudence and Gender	212	(11)
Robin West
Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Dworkin	223	(9)
Andrew Altman
Skepticism, Objectivity, and Democracy	232	(10)
Ronald Dworkin
Part III Philosophical Issues in Criminal Law
Punishment: Theory and Practice
Who Should be Punished?	242	(1)
Capital Punishment	243	(7)
The Utilitarian Theory of Criminal Punishment	250	(6)
Richard B. Brandt
Persons and Punishment	256	(7)
Herbert Morris
Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice	263	(7)
Randy E. Barnett
Legal Cases in Criminal Law Racial Bias in Sentencing	270	(2)
Cruel and Unusual Punishment	272	(5)
Problems of Criminal Liability
Survival on a Lifeboat	277	(4)
The Principles of Criminal Law	281	(6)
Richard B. Brandt
Intention	287	(7)
H. L. A. Hart
Attempting the Impossible	294	(7)
Rape	301	(8)
Susan Estrich
The Battered Woman's Defense	309	(9)
Catharyn Jo Rosen
Is the Insanity Test Insane?	318	(9)
R. J. Gerber
What Is So Special about Mental Illness?	327	(7)
Joel Feinberg
The Cultural Defense in the Criminal Law	334	(9)
Harvard Law Review
The Rights of Defendants
Convicting the Innocent	343	(7)
James McCloskey
A Debate on the Exclusionary Rule	350	(12)
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
Stephen H. Sachs
Interrogation and the Right to Counsel	362	(16)
Criminal Justice and the Negotiated Plea	378	(7)
Kenneth Kipnis
The Race Card and Jury Nullification	385	(11)
Randall Kennedy
Part IV Philosophical Issues in Civil Law
Compensating for Private Harms: The Law of Torts
Negligence	396	(7)
William Prosser
Foreseeability of Risk	403	(3)
Negligence and Due Care	406	(7)
Tort Liability and Corrective Justice	413	(8)
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Jules L. Coleman
Legal Cases in Tort Law Efficiency and the Law	421	(1)
Liability without Causation?	422	(3)
A Duty to Rescue?	425	(5)
Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth	430	(8)
Private Ownership: The Law of Property
Property	438	(6)
John Locke
Property and Sovereignty	444	(6)
Morris Raphael Cohen
Legal Cases in Property Property Acquisition	450	(4)
Taking without Compensation	454	(6)
Private Agreements: The Law of Contract
The Basis of Contract	460	(8)
Morris Raphael Cohen
Contract as Promise	468	(8)
Charles Fried
Legal Cases in Contract Law Surrogate Mother Contracts	476	(9)
Employment Contracts	485	(11)
Part V Philosophical Issues in Constitutional Law
Constitutional Government and the Problem of Interpretation
The Political Meaning of Constitutionalism: British, French, and American Perspectives	496	(11)
Ulrich K. Preuss
Debating Ratification of the U.S. Constitution	507	(13)
Robert Yates
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
The Notion of a Living Constitution	520	(6)
William H. Rehnquist
Constitutional Cases	526	(9)
Ronald Dworkin
Precommitment and Disagreement	535	(10)
Jeremy Waldron
Democracy, Judicial Review, and the Special Competency of Judges	545	(8)
John Arthur
Precedent, Legitimacy, and Judicial Review	553	(7)
Freedom of Religion, Free Speech, and Privacy
A Letter Concerning Toleration	560	(4)
John Locke
Legal Cases on Religious Freedom School Prayer	564	(4)
Engel v. Vitale
Religious Freedom and Public Education	568	(3)
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Secular Humanism and Religious Establishment	571	(4)
On Liberty	575	(11)
John Stuart Mill
Legal Cases on Political Speech Foundations of Free Speech	586	(3)
Flag Burning	589	(4)
Texas v. Johnson
Nazi Marches	593	(3)
Legal Cases on Obscenity and Pornography Obscenity	596	(3)
Pornography and Women	599	(3)
Privacy, Homosexuality, and the Constitution	602	(9)
John Arthur
Equality and the Constitution
Justice Engendered	611	(11)
Martha Minow
Equality, Race, and Gender	622	(14)
Peter Singer
Affirmative Action: An Exchange	636	(11)
Ronald Dworkin
Respondents
Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans	647	(6)
Gender Discrimination	653	(2)
Legal Cases on Equality versus Free Speech Speech Creating a ``Hostile Environment''	655	(3)
Campus Speech Codes	658	(6)
Appendix: The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment	664	(2)
Acknowledgments	666