Readings in the Philosophy of Law - Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9781554812523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str.

Keith Culver; Michael Giudice

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Brings together central texts on such topics as legal reasoning, the limits of individual liberty, responsibility and punishment, and international law. The included selections provide superb coverage of both classic and contemporary views, and are edited only lightly to allow readers to grapple with arguments in their original form.

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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Further ReadingsChapter 1: Natural Law Theory
• St. Thomas Aquinas, ""Treatise on Law,"" Questions 90-91, 94-96, Summa Theologica
• John Finnis, from Natural Law and Natural Rights
• Chapter 2: Legal Positivism
• John Austin, from The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
• H.L.A. Hart
• ""Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals""
• ""Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules,"" The Concept of Law
• ""The Foundations of a Legal System,"" The Concept of Law
• Chapter 3: Integrity
• Ronald Dworkin
• ""The Model of Rules I,"" Taking Rights Seriously
• ""Integrity in Law,"" Law's Empire
• Chapter 4: Legal Realism
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, ""The Path of the Law,"" The Common Law
• Brian Leiter, ""Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence""
• Chapter 5: Recent Developments: Feminist Jurisprudence, Critical Race Theory, and Legal Pluralism
• Patricia Smith, ""Feminist Jurisprudence and the Nature of Law,"" Feminist Jurisprudence
• Catharine A. MacKinnon, ""Toward Feminist Jurisprudence,"" Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
• Richard Delgado, ""About Your Masthead: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Compatibility of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties""
• Brian Tamanaha, ""Looking at Micronesia for Insights about the Nature of Law and Legal Thinking""
• Chapter 6: Constitutional Rights, Judicial Review, and Democracy
• Jeremy Waldron, ""A Right-Based Critique of Constitutional Rights""
• Wil Waluchow, ""Constitutions as Living Trees: An Idiot Defends""
• Chapter 7: Law and Limits on Individual Liberty
• John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty
• Patrick Devlin, ""Morals and the Criminal Law,"" The Enforcement of Morals
• H.L.A. Hart, from Law, Liberty and Morality
• Ronald Dworkin, ""The Threat to Patriotism""
• Chapter 8: Responsibility
• H.L.A. Hart, ""Postscript: Responsibility and Retribution,"" Punishment and Responsibility
• R.A. Duff, ""Choice, Character, and Action,"" Criminal Attempts
• Heidi Hurd, ""Why Liberals Should ‘Hate' Hate Crime Legislation""
• Chapter 9: The Nature of International Law
• Hugo Grotius, ""Prolegomena,"" De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres
• H.L.A. Hart, ""lnternational Law,"" The Concept of Law
• Martti Koskenniemi, ""The Politics of lnternational Law""
• Roger Cotterrell, ""Transnational Communities and the Concept of Law""