Moral puzzles and legal perplexities essays on the influence of Larry Alexander

Drawing inspiration from the profoundly influential work of legal theorist Larry Alexander, this volume tackles central questions in criminal law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy. What are the legitimate conditions of blame and punishment? What values are at the heart of cons...

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Other Authors: Hurd, Heidi M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
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505 0 |a Larry Alexander / Heidi M. Hurd -- Kinds of punishment / Douglas Husak -- Partial responsibility and excuse / David O. Brink -- "Thank God I failed" / R.A. Duff -- Does duress justify or excuse? : the significance of Larry Alexander's ambivalence / Peter Westen -- Alternative lesser evils / Gideon Yaffe -- Justifying academic freedom : Mill and Marcuse revisited / Brian Leiter -- Vindicating judicial supremacy / Laurence Claus -- Alexander's "simple-minded originalism" / Connie S. Rosati -- Subjective versus objective intentionalism in legal interpretation / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- Simple-minded originalism? simply wrong! / Lawrence B. Solum -- Intentions in tension / Frederick Schauer -- Alexander's constitutionalism : a qualified defense / Alon Harel -- For legal principles / Mitchell N. Berman -- The court, or the constitution? / William Baude -- Alexander as anarchist / Steven D. Smith -- Exclusionary rules / Emily Sherwin -- Larry Alexander and "the gap" / Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni -- Respect and discrimination / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- The means principle and optimific wrongs / Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Deontology's travails / Richard Arneson -- The rationality of threshold deontology / Michael S. Moore -- Real-world criminal law and the norm against punishing the innocent : two cheers for threshold deontology / Kevin Cole -- Appreciation and responses / Larry Alexander 
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520 |a Drawing inspiration from the profoundly influential work of legal theorist Larry Alexander, this volume tackles central questions in criminal law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy. What are the legitimate conditions of blame and punishment? What values are at the heart of constitutional protections against discrimination or infringements of free speech? Must judges interpret statutes and constitutional provisions in ways that comport with the intentions of those who wrote them? Can the law obligate us to violate the demands of morality, and when can the law allow the rights of the few to be violated for the good of the many? This collection of essays by world-renowned legal theorists is for anyone interested in foundational questions about the law's authority, the conditions of its fair application to citizens, and the moral justifications of the rights, duties, and permissions that it protects