The Blackwell Guide To The Philosophy Of Law And Legal Theory

by Golding, Martin P.; Edmundson, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780631228325
• ISBN10: 0631228322
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-12
• Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS

Summary

Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers and legal theorists, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory creates a groundbreaking student resource in critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today.

Author Biography

Martin P. Golding is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Duke University, where he directs the joint law-philosophy program. His books include Philosophy of Law (1975), Legal Reasoning (1984), and Free Speech on Campus (2000). He is also editor of Jewish Law and Legal Theory (1994).

William A. Edmundson is Professor of Law and of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He is author of Three Anarchical Fallacies (1998) and An Introduction to Rights (2004), and editor of The Duty to Obey the Law (1999). He is General Editor of the book series, Cambridge Introductions to Law and Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
William A. Edmundson
Part I Contending Schools of Thought	13	(92)
Natural Law Theory	15	(14)
Mark C. Murphy
Legal Positivism	29	(21)
Brian H. Bix
American Legal Realism	50	(17)
Brian Leiter
Economic Rationality in the Analysis of Legal Rules and Institutions	67	(13)
Lewis A. Kornhauser
Critical Legal Theory	80	(10)
Mark V. Tushnet
Four Themes in Feminist Legal Theory: Difference, Dominance, Domesticity, and Denial	90	(15)
Patricia Smith
Part II Doctrinal Domains and their Philosophical Foundations	105	(72)
Criminal Law Theory	107	(15)
Douglas Husak
Philosophy of Tort Law	122	(16)
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Contract Theory	138	(10)
Eric A. Posner
The Commons and the Anticommons in the Law and Theory of Property	148	(15)
Stephen R. Munzer
Legal Evidence	163	(14)
Alvin I. Goldman
Part III Perennial Topics	177	(108)
Legal and Moral Obligation	179	(12)
Matthew H. Kramer
Theories of Rights	191	(16)
Alon Harel
A Contractarian Approach to Punishment	207	(14)
Claire Finkelstein
Responsibility	221	(15)
Martin P. Golding
Legislation	236	(12)
Jeremy J. Waldron
Constitutionalism	248	(11)
Larry A. Alexander
Adjudication and Legal Reasoning	259	(12)
Richard Warner
Privacy	271	(14)
William A. Edmundson
Part IV Continental Perspectives	285	(28)
Continental Perspectives on Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism	287	(13)
Jes Bjarup
Some Contemporary Trends in Continental Philosophy of Law	300	(13)
Guy Haarscher
Part V Methodological Concerns	313	(30)
Objectivity	315	(9)
Nicos Stavropoulos
Can There Be a Theory of Law?	324	(19)
Joseph Raz
Index	343