A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory

by Patterson, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780631213291
• ISBN10: 0631213295
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This outstanding new volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the theories, topics, subjects, and discourses that now feature in the law school and undergraduate legal studies curricula.Written by many of today's leading figures, each of the 42 newly-commissioned survey articles takes the reader through the basic theoretical concepts, problems, theories, and themes of contemporary legal theory. While the text is written as a guide for the uninitiated, the authors strive to make an original and substantial contribution to the field.Taken together, the volume provides an unparalleled work of reference for teaching and research in philosophy of law, jurisprudence, legal theory, and legal studies.

Author Biography

Dennis Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University, School of Law (Camden). He is the author of Law and Truth (1996) and the Editor of Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, 1999).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix	(3)
Preface	xii
PART I: AREAS OF LAW	3	(220)
1 Property law	3	(21)
JEREMY WALDRON
2 Contract	24	(33)
PETER BENSON
3 Tort law	57	(23)
STEPHEN R. PERRY
4 Criminal law	80	(16)
LEO KATZ
5 Public international law	96	(17)
PHILIP BOBBITT
6 Constitutional law and religion	113	(13)
PERRY DANE
7 Constitutional law and interpretation	126	(13)
PHILIP BOBBITT
8 Constitutional law and privacy	139	(17)
ANITA L. ALLEN
9 Constitutional law and equality	156	(16)
MAIMON SCHWARZSCHILD
10 Evidence	172	(12)
JOHN JACKSON
SEAN DORAN
11 Comparative law	184	(16)
RICHARD HYLAND
12 Interpretation of statutes	200	(9)
WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE, JR
13 Conflict of laws	209	(14)
PERRY DANE
PART II: CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS	223	(174)
14 Natural law theory	223	(18)
BRIAN BIX
15 Legal positivism	241	(20)
JULES L. COLEMAN
BRIAN LEITER
16 Legal realism	261	(19)
BRIAN LEITER
17 Critical legal studies	280	(11)
GUYORA BINDER
18 Post-realism and legal process	291	(11)
NEIL DUXBURY
19 Feminist jurisprudence	302	(9)
PATRICIA SMITH
20 Law and economics	311	(21)
JON D. HANSON
MELISSA R. HART
21 Legal formalism	332	(11)
ERNEST J. WEINRIB
22 German legal philosophy and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries	343	(12)
ALEXANDER SOMEK
23 Marxist theory of law	355	(12)
ALAN HUNT
24 Deconstruction	367	(8)
J. M. BALKIN
25 Postmodernism	375	(10)
DENNIS PATTERSON
26 Legal pragmatism	385	(12)
RICHARD WARNER
PART III: LAW AND THE DISCIPLINES	397	(68)
27 Law and anthropology	397	(9)
REBECCA REDWOOD FRENCH
28 The sociology of law	406	(15)
M. P. BAUMGARTNER
29 Law and theology	421	(15)
EDWARD CHASE
30 Law and morality	436	(14)
ROGER A. SHINER
31 Law and literature	450	(15)
THOMAS MORAWETZ
PART IV: TOPICS	465	(126)
32 The duty to obey the law	465	(10)
M. B. E. SMITH
33 Legal enforcement of morality	475	(13)
KENT GREENAWALT
34 Indeterminacy	488	(15)
LAWRENCE B. SOLUM
35 Precedent	503	(11)
LARRY ALEXANDER
36 Punishment and responsibility	514	(10)
GEORGE P. FLETCHER
37 Loyalty	524	(9)
GEORGE P. FLETCHER
38 Coherence	533	(20)
KEN KRESS
39 The welfare state	553	(9)
SANFORD LEVINSON
40 Legal scholarship	562	(11)
EDWARD L. RUBIN
41 Authority of law	573	(10)
VINCENT A. WELLMAN
42 Analogical reasoning	583	(8)
JEFFERSON WHITE
Index	591