Title: The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of law and legal theory /
Authors: Golding, Martin P. 1930-; Edmundson, William A. 1948-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Law Philosophy
Abstract: A complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic.
Contents: Contending schools of thought -- Natural law theory / Mark C. Murphy -- Legal positivism / Brian H. Bix -- American legal realism / Brian Leiter -- Economic rationality in the analysis of legal rules and institutions / Lewis A. Kornhauser -- Critical legal theory / Mark V. Tushnet -- Four themes in feminist legal theory : difference, dominance, domesticity, and denial / Patricia Smith -- Doctrinal domains and their philosophical foundations -- Criminal law theory / Douglas Husak -- Philosophy of tort law / Benjamin C. Zipursky -- Contract theory / Eric A. Posner -- The commons and the anticommons in the law and theory of property / Stephen R. Munzer -- Legal evidence / Alvin I. Goldman -- Perennial topics -- Legal and moral obligation / Matthew H. Kramer -- Theories of rights / Alon Harel -- A contractualist approach to punishment / Claire Finkelstein -- Responsibility / Martin P. Golding -- Legislation / Jeremy J. Waldron -- Constitutionalism / Larry A. Alexander -- Adjudication and legal reasoning / Richard Warner -- Privacy / William A. Edmundson -- Continental perspectives -- Continental perspectives on natural law theory and legal positivism / Jes Bjarup -- Some contemporary trends in continental philosophy of law / Guy Haarscher -- Methodological concerns -- Objectivity / Nicos Stavropoulos -- Can there be a theory of law? / Joseph Raz.