Philosophy of Law

Preface ix PART ONE The Nature of Law 1(240) The Natural Law Tradition 8(47) Selections from On Law, Morality, and Politics 8(5) Saint Thomas Aquinas Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law 13(4) Lon L. Fuller Natural Law Jurisprudence 17(19) Mark C. Murphy Of Laws in General 36(1) Jeremy Bentham The Case of the Speluncean Explorers 37(18) Lon L. Fuller Legal Positivism 55(62) A Positivist Conception of Law 55(13) John Austin Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules 68(16) H. L. A. Hart Negative and Positive Positivism 84(17) Jules L. Coleman Institutionalized Normative Systems 101(16) Joseph Raz Legal Realism and Skepticism 117(17) Legal Realism 117(3) Jerome Frank The Path of the Law 120(6) O. W. Holmes, Jr. Ships and Shoes and Sealing Wax 126(8) K. N. Llewellyn Principles and Legal Interpretation 134(36) Integrity in Law 134(17) Ronald Dworkin Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws 151(10) Antonin Scalia Comment 161(9) Ronald Dworkin Critical Theory 170(22) Constitutional Democracy: A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles? 170(10) Jurgen Habermas Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination 180(12) Catharine A. Mackinnon International Law 192(14) Is International Law Law? 192(13) H. L. A. Hart United States Supreme Court, 2005: Roper v. Simmons 205(1) Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law? 206(35) Crito 206(8) Plato Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law? 214(17) M. B. E. Smith Letter from Birmingham Jail 231(10) Martin Luther King, Jr. PART TWO The Political Morality of Law 241(290) Liberty 251(41) The Liberal Argument from On Liberty 251(12) John Stuart Mill Beyond the Harm Principle 263(18) Arthur Ripstein Paternalism 281(11) Gerald Dworkin Equality 292(55) Equality as a Moral Ideal 292(16) Harry Frankfurt Equality 308(14) Joseph Raz The Reasonable Woman 322(5) Kim Lane Scheppele Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1981: State v. Rusk 327(4) Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1984: State v. Kelly 331(5) United States Supreme Court, 2003: Grutter v. Bollinger 336(11) Rights 347(30) The Nature and Value of Rights 347(10) Joel Feinberg Rethinking the Theory of Legal Rights 357(11) Jules L. Coleman Jody Kraus Are There Any Natural Rights? 368(9) H. L. A. Hart Privacy 377(32) The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time Bomb 377(3) Robert H. Bork Sexuality, Authenticity, and Modernity 380(12) Leslie Green United States Supreme Court, 1973: Roe v. Wade 392(5) United States Supreme Court, 1992: Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey 397(4) United States Supreme Court, 2003: Lawrence v. Texas 401(8) Freedom of Expression 409(47) Not a Moral Issue 409(17) Catharine A. Mackinnon United States Supreme Court, 1971: Cohen v. California 426(4) Supreme Court of Illinois, 1978: Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America 430(4) United States Supreme Court, 1980: PruneYard Shopping Center et al. v. Robins et al. 434(4) Offensive Nuisances 438(18) Joel Feinberg Terrorism and Torture 456(75) The Moral Significance of Terrorism 456(15) Matthew Noah Smith Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees 471(8) John Yoo Robert J. Delahunty United States Supreme Court, 2006: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 479(18) Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?: A Case Study in How a Democracy Should Make Tragic Choices 497(12) Alan M. Dershowitz Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House 509(22) Jeremy Waldron PART THREE Philosophy and the Law 531(429) General Principles of Responsibility 545(45) Causation and Responsibility 545(13) H. L. A. Hart A. M. Honore Action and Responsibility 558(16) Joel Feinberg Responsibility and Luck: The Moral Basis of Strict Liability 574(16) Tony Honore Punishment and Responsibility 590(95) The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace: A Hypothetical Decision on a Hypothetical State of Facts 590(5) Sanford H. Kadish Stephen J. Schulhofer The Punishment That Leaves Something to Chance 595(9) David Lewis The Gist of Excuses 604(11) John Gardner New York Court of Appeals, 1962: People v. Young 615(3) New Jersey Supreme Court, 1963: State v. Guido 618(2) House of Lords, 1843: The M'Naghten Rules 620(1) American Law Institute: The Insanity Defense 621(3) The Classic Debate 624(5) Joel Feinberg The Expressive Function of Punishment 629(12) Joel Feinberg Persons and Punishment 641(14) Herbert Morris Forgiveness and Resentment 655(10) Jeffrie Murphy Should We Execute Those Who Deserve to Die? 665(9) Stephen Nathanson United States Supreme Court, 1972: Furman v. Georgia 674(11) Torts and Compensation 685(124) Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts 685(21) John Gardner Loss, Agency, and Responsibility for Outcomes: Three Conceptions of Corrective Justice 706(16) Stephen R. Perry Mischief and Misfortune: Annual McGill Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy 722(23) Jules Coleman Arthur Ripstein Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm 745(22) Seana Valentine Shiffrin New York Court of Appeals, 1928: Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad Co. 767(7) Supreme Court of California, in Bank, 1948: Summers v. Tice 774(4) Supreme Court of California, 1980: Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories 778(17) Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1905: Mohr v. Williams 795(4) Court of Appeals of New York, 1978: Becker v. Schwartz 799(10) Contract 809(93) Contract Law and Distributive Justice 809(20) Anthony T. Kronman From Contract as Promise 829(21) Charles Fried Should the ``Intention to Create Legal Relations'' Be a Criterion of Enforceability? 850(6) Randy E. Barnett Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising 856(17) Richard Craswell Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and Accommodation 873(19) Seana Valentine Shiffrin Supreme Court of New Jersey, 109 N.J. 396, 537 A.2D 1227 (1987): In Re Baby M 892(3) Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1825: Mills v. Wyman 895(2) Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973: Sullivan v. O'Connor 897(5) Property 902(58) Ownership 902(21) A. M. Honore From ``Of Property'' 923(7) John Locke From A Treatise of Human Nature 930(11) David Hume Two Worries about Mixing One's Labour 941(5) Jeremy Waldron Incorporeal Property in Primitive Society 946(8) Robert H. Lowie United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2001: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 954(6) United States Supreme Court, 1980: Diamond v. Chakrabarty 960