Justifying judgment : practicing law and philosophy / Vincent J. Samar.
1998
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Title
Justifying judgment : practicing law and philosophy / Vincent J. Samar.
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
K240 .S36 1998
ISBN
0700608540 (alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37281562
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1
1
Sources of Law
7
Legal Philosophy
8
Shortcomings of Legal Philosophy
26
2
The Duty to Obey Law
30
Political Philosophy
36
The Doctrine of Political Responsibility
47
3
Metatheory
61
Justice as an End of Political Responsibility
62
Analyzing Metatheory
67
Substantive Principles and the Question of Objectivity
82
4
Virtual Law
90
Skepticism: External and Internal
91
Theoretical Reason
99
Practical Reason
107
5
Real Law
110
Two Understandings of Truth
110
From the Internal Point of View to Political Morality
115
From Political Morality to Law
126
6
Difficult Cases
138
Privacy, Sodomy, and Society's Political Morality
140
Slavery and Natural Law
147
Abortion and the Internal Point of View
152
Lochner and the Court's Failure to Do Justice
162
Plessy, Brown, and the Social Construction of the "Natural"
171
7
Legal Education
179
A Brief Word About Terminology
181
Traditionalism
183
Legal Constructivism
193
Threshing, Not Trashing
207
Conclusion
220
Notes
233
Selected Bibliography
279
Index
293