From Morality to Law and Back Again A Liber Amicorum for John Gardner

by Madden Dempsey, Michelle; Tanguay-Renaud, François

• ISBN13: 9780198860594
• ISBN10: 0198860595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-11-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michelle Madden Dempsey, Villanova University,François Tanguay-Renaud, Osgoode Hall Law School; York University

Michelle Madden Dempsey is the Harold Reuschlein Scholar Chair and Professor of Law at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Previously, she was a CUF Lecturer at University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College and Brasenose College, where she taught Jurisprudence and Criminal Law. A former criminal prosecutor, her book, Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis (OUP), was awarded second prize in the UK's Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Award for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. Her scholarly interests focus on the state's response to violence against women, as explored through the intersections of law and philosophy. She received her D. Phil. (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford, her LL.M. from the London School of Economics, J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and her B.A. from the University of Illinois.

François Tanguay-Renaud is Professor of Law and Director of Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, Osgoode Hall, York University. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University. Previously, he was a Stipendiary Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and a law clerk to Justice Marie Deschamps of the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also held visiting appointments at the University of Minnesota Law School (Robina Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice), the National University of Singapore, the University of Oxford (H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellowship), the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Centre for Ethics, Massey College, and the National Law School University of India. He holds degrees in both civil and common law from McGill University, and completed his graduate work (BCL, MPhil, DPhil) at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Table of Contents

1. Law and Social Practice: Foundations of the Leap of Faith, Jean Thomas
2. Can the Constitution of a Fruit Fly Be Written?, Grégoire Webber
3. Gardner's Pluralistic Virtue Jurisprudence, Amalia Amaya
4. The Importance of Being Effective, Aditi Bagchi
5. Hume's Law (in Gardner and otherwise), Luís Duarte d'Almeida
6. Explaining Ourselves in Court, James Edwards
7. Private, Public and Punitive Blame, Leora Dahan Katz
8. Blame and Punishment: The Difference Duty Makes, Michelle Madden Dempsey
9. Vindicating Criminal Law, Scott Hershovitz
10. State Crimes, François Tanguay-Renaud
11. Rape Trauma and Rape's Wrongness, Kate Greasley
12. John Gardner's Continuity Theory of Corrective Justice, Peter Chau
13. Never Let Me Go: Private Law and the Conservative Impulse, Prince Saprai
14. Virtuously Discriminating: John Gardner's Contributions to Discrimination Theory, Sophia Moreau
15. Indigenous Rights and Decolonized Legal Positivism, Dwight Newman
16. Big E Equity, Small C Conservatism, Irit Samet