On philosophy in American law

In recent years, there has been tremendous growth of interest in the connections between law and philosophy, but the diversity of approaches that claim to be working at the intersection of these disciplines might suggest that this area of inquiry is so fractured as to be incoherent. This volume gath...

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Other Authors: Mootz, Francis J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • On Philosophy in American law (1934) / K. N. Llewellyn
  • Law in life, life in law : Llewellyn's legal realism revisited / Jan M. Brockman
  • On realism's own "hangover" of natural law philosophy : Llewellyn 'avec' Dooyeweerd / David S. Caudill
  • On the instrumental view of law in American legal culture / Brian Z. Tamanaha
  • When things went terribly, terribly wrong / Steven L. Winter
  • The mechanics of perfection : philosophy, theology, and the foundations of American law / Larry Catá Backer
  • Toward normative jurisprudence / Robin West
  • Critical legal theory today / Jack M. Balkin
  • Reviving the subject of law / Penelope Pether
  • Law and creativity / George H. Taylor
  • The stories of American law / Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Nancy Levit
  • On philosophy in American law : analytical legal philosophy / Brian H. Bix
  • Political philosophy and prosecutorial power / Austin Sarat and Connor Clarke
  • On (moral) philosophy and American legal scholarship / Matthew D. Adler
  • The aretaic turn in American philosophy of law / Lawrence B. Solum
  • On continental philosophy in American jurisprudence / Adam Thurschwell
  • Psychoanalysis as the jurisprudence of freedom / Jeanne L. Schroeder and David Gray Carlson
  • Law as premise / Frank I. Michelman
  • Doing justice to justice : Paul Ricoeur / David H. Fisher
  • Love is all you need : freedom of thought versus freedom of action / Eugene Garver
  • Legal philosophy over the next century ( while we wait for the personal rocket transportation we were promised) / R. George Wright
  • Atmospherics : abortion law and philosophy / Anita L. Allen
  • Foundationalism and ground truth in American legal philosophy : classical rhetoric, realism, and pragmatism / Eileen A. Scallen
  • The irrelevance of comtemporary academic philosophy for law : recovering the rhetorical tradition / Francis J. Mootz III
  • Dicta / Peter Goodrich
  • Recent and future concepts of law : from conceptual analysis to a practice theory of law / Dennis Patterson
  • The tasks of a philosophy of law / Robert P. Burns
  • Law and phiosophy at odds / Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin
  • Jurisprudence : beyond extinction? / Steven D. Smith
  • Law and philosophy in the hyperreal / Pierre Schlag
  • Philosophy? In American law? / Philippe Nonet
  • Optimism and pessimism in American legal philosophy / Carlos A. Ball
  • This jurisprudential moment / Marianne Constable
  • Fresh looks, philosophy-in-action, and American law / Michael Sullivan