Legal philosophy : multiple perspectives /

Legal philosophy : multiple perspectives /

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Imprint:Mountain View, CA. : Mayfield Pub. Co., 2000.
Description:808 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Law -- Philosophy.
Law (Philosophical concept)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4147792
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Other authors / contributors:Levi, Edward H. (Edward Hirsch), 1911-2000
May, Larry.
Snow, Nancy E.
Bolte, Angela.
Sunstein, Cass R.
Posner, Richard A.
Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
ISBN:0767410092
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Legal Reasoning
  • "Formalism"
  • Lochner v. New York
  • Law and the Modern Mind
  • An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
  • Law's Empire
  • "Incompletely Theorized Arguments"
  • 2. Jurisprudence
  • The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
  • The Concept of Law
  • "The Model of Rules I"
  • Riggs v. Palmer
  • "Natural Law and Legal Reasoning"
  • "The Economic Approach to Law"
  • The Critical Legal Studies Movement
  • Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Shaped the Movement
  • "Feminist Legal Critics: The Reluctant Radicals"
  • 3. Torts
  • "Causation and Responsibility"
  • "Sua Culpa"
  • "Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory"
  • "Tort Liability and the Limits of Corrective Justice"
  • "A Theory of Strict Liability"
  • "The Question of a Duty to Rescue in Canadian Tort Law: An Answer from France"
  • "Personal Injury Systems in Japan: Values Advanced and Values Undermined"
  • Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California
  • 4. Criminal Law
  • On Liberty and Utilitarianism
  • The Enforcement of Morals
  • Bowers v. Hardwick
  • "Crime and Punishment: An Indigenous African Experience"
  • "The Mind and the Deed"
  • "Is the Insanity Test Insane?"
  • "First Amendment Challenges to Hate Crime Legislation: Where's the Speech?"
  • "Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis"
  • 5. Property
  • "Of Property"
  • from Anarchy, State, and Utopia
  • "Property, Title, and Redistribution"
  • "An Introduction to Chinese Property Law"
  • Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain
  • "The Social Structure of Japanese Intellectual Property Law"
  • "Historical Rights and Fair Shares"
  • "Compensation, Reparations, and Restitution: Indian Property Claims in the United States"
  • "Whiteness as Property"
  • International News Service v. Associated Press
  • 6. Contracts
  • from Leviathan
  • "The Practice of Promising"
  • "Contract as Promise"
  • "Legally Enforceable Commitments"
  • "Unconscionability and Contracts"
  • Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc
  • Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co
  • "South African Contract Law: The Need for a Concept of Unconscionability"
  • "On Surrogacy: Morality, Markets, and Motherhood"
  • 7. Constitutional Law
  • "Constitutional Cases"
  • "Does the Constitution Mean What It Always Meant?"
  • "What's Wrong with Chinese Rights? Toward a Theory of Rights with Chinese Characteristics"
  • "The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time Bomb"
  • "Poverty and Constitutional Justice (in India)"
  • "Constitutional Privacy, Judicial Interpretation, and Bowers v. Hardwick"
  • "Natural Law: Alive and Kicking? A Look at the Constitutional Morality of Sexual Privacy in Ireland"
  • "If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus"
  • "Do We Have a Right to Pornography?"
  • "Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women, and Pornographers"
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas I
  • 8. Family Law
  • "Relational Rights and Responsibilities: Revisioning the Family in Liberal Political Theory"
  • "Beyond Lesbian and Gay 'Families We Choose'"
  • from Economic Analysis of Law
  • "A Different Form of Apartheid? The Legal Status of Married Women in South Africa"
  • "The Tragedy of Bride Burning in India: How Should the Law Address it?"
  • "Unwed Fathers and Adoption: A Theoretical Analysis in Context"
  • "Fathers' Rights, Mothers' Wrongs: Reflections on Unwed Fathers' Rights and Sex Equality"
  • Stanley v. Illinois
  • 9. Employment Law
  • "Affirmative Action: Pro"
  • "Affirmative Action: Con"
  • "Affirmative Action for South Africa in Transition: From Theory to Practice"
  • California Constitution
  • "Sexual Harrassment and Solidarity"
  • "Sexual Character Evidence in Civil Actions: Refining the Propensity Rule"
  • Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
  • 10. Remedies, Sentencing, and Punishment
  • "On the Right to Punish and to Grant Clemency"
  • from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
  • "What Do Alternative Sanctions Mean?"
  • "Representing the Condemned: A Critique of Capital Punishment"
  • "Equity and Mercy"
  • Payne v. Tennesee
  • 11. Legal Ethics
  • "The Lawyer As Friend: The Moral Foundations of the Lawyer-Client Relation"
  • "Why Have an Adversary System?"
  • "Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Obligation"
  • "Conflict of Interest"
  • Wheat v. United States
  • "Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer: The Three Hardest Questions"
  • "Breaking the Law: Lawyers and Clients in Struggles for Social Change"

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