The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of law and legal theory /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005. |
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| Description: | ix, 355 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell philosophy guides ; 18 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5539594 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Contending Schools of Thought
- 1. Legal Positivism
- 2. Natural Law Theory
- 3. American Legal Realism
- 4. Economic Rationality in the Analysis of Legal Rules and Institutions
- 5. Critical Legal Theory
- 6. Four Themes in Feminist Legal Theory: Difference, Dominance, Domesticity, and Denial
- Part II. Doctrinal Domains and Their Philosophical Foundations
- 7. Criminal Law Theory
- 8. Philosophy of Tort Law: Between the Banal and the Esoteric
- 9. Contract Theory
- 10. The Commons and the Anticommons in the Law and Theory of Property
- 11. Legal Evidence
- Part III. Perennial Topics
- 12. Obligation
- 13. Theories of Rights
- 14. A Contractarian Approach to Punishment
- 15. Responsibility
- 16. Legislation
- 17. Constitutionalism
- 18. Adjudication and Legal Reasoning
- 19. Privacy
- Part IV. Continental Perspectives
- 20. On Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory
- 21. Some Contemporary Trends in Continental Philosophy of Law
- Part V. Methodological Concerns
- 22. Objectivity
- 23. Can There Be a Theory of Law?
- Index