The Nature of Law / Part I: |
The Natural Law Tradition / A: |
Selections from On Law, Morality and Politics / Aquinas1: |
Eight Ways to Fail to Make Laws / Lon L. Fuller2: |
Natural Law Jurisprudence / Mark Murphy3: |
(on Blackstone) Of Laws in General / Bentham4: |
Speluncean Explorers / Lon Fuller5: |
Legal Positivism / B: |
A Positivism Conception of Law / John Austin |
Law at the Union of Primary and Secondary Laws / H. L. A. Hart |
Negative and Positive Positivism / Jules Coleman |
Institutionalized Normative Systems / Joseph Raz |
Legal Realism and Skepticism / C: |
Legal Realism / Jerome Frank |
The Path of the Law / Oliver Wendell Holmes |
From The Bramble Bush / Karl Llewelyn |
Principles and Legal Interpretation / D: |
Integrity in Law / Ronald Dworkin |
Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws / Antonin Scalia |
Comment |
Critical Theory / E: |
Constitutional Democracy: A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles? / Jurgen Habermas |
CDifference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination / atharine A. MacKinnon |
Is International Law, Law? / F: |
Roper v. Simmons |
Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law? / H: |
Plato, Crito |
Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law? / M. B. E. Smith |
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Political Philosophy of Law / Part II: |
Liberty and Authority |
The Liberal Argument from On Liberty / John Stuart Mill |
Beyond the Harm Principle / Arthur Ripstein |
Paternalism / Gerald Dworkin |
Equality |
Equality as a Moral Ideal / Harry Frankfurt |
From The Morality of Freedom |
The Reasonable Woman / Kim Lane Scheppele |
State v. Rusk |
State v. Kelly |
Grutter v. Bollinger / 6: |
Rights |
The Nature and Value of Rights / Joel Feinberg |
Rethinking the Theory of Legal Rights / Jody Kraus |
Are There Any Natural Rights? |
Privacy |
The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time-Bomb / Robert H. Bork |
Leslie Green, Sexuality, Authenticity and Modernity |
Roe v. Wade |
Planned Parenthood of SE / Pennsylvania v. Casey |
Lawrence v. Texas |
Freedom of Expression |
Not a Moral Issue / Catharine Mackinnon |
Cohen v. California |
Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America |
Pruneyard Shopping Center et al. v. / Robins et al. |
Offensive Nuisances |
Terrorism and Torture |
The Moral Significance of Terrorism / Matt Smith |
Memorandum from John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Robert J. Delahunty, Special Counsel, Office of Legal Counsel, Dept of Justice, to William J. Haynes II, General Counsel, Department of Defense, Application of Treaties and Laws to al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees (Jan 9 2002) / John Yoo |
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured? / Alan Dershowitz |
Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House |
Philosophy and the Law / Part III: |
General Principles of Responsibility |
Causation and Responsibility / A. M. Honore |
Action and Responsibility |
Honore, Responsibility and Luck: The Moral Basis of Strict Liability |
Punishment and Responsibility |
The Case of Lady Eldon?s French Lace / Sanford S. Kadish ; Stephen J. Schulhofer |
The Punishment that Leaves Something to Chance / David Lewis |
The Gist of Excuses / John Gardner |
People v. Young |
State v. Guido |
The M?Naughten Rules |
The American Law Institute, The Insanity Defense / 7: |
The Classic Debate / 8: |
The Expressive Function of Punishment / 9: |
Persons and Punishment / Herbert Morris10: |
From Forgiveness and Mercy / Jeffrie Murphy ; Jean Hampton11: |
Should We Execute Those Who Des / Stephen Nathonson12: |
The Nature of Law / Part I: |
The Natural Law Tradition / A: |
Selections from On Law, Morality and Politics / Aquinas1: |
Eight Ways to Fail to Make Laws / Lon L. Fuller2: |
Natural Law Jurisprudence / Mark Murphy3: |
(on Blackstone) Of Laws in General / Bentham4: |