The Nature and process of law : an introduction to legal philosophy / edited by Patricia Smith.
1993
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Title
The Nature and process of law : an introduction to legal philosophy / edited by Patricia Smith.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Call Number
K231 .N37 1993
ISBN
0195076974 :
Description
xviii, 856 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25833138
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [ix]-xi)
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Table of Contents
The Path of the Law / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
3
Introduction
7
Unit I
Formal Foundations of Law
11
Ch. 1The Nature of the Political Process
13
Sect. 1 Constitutional Government and the Rule of Law
14
[From] Law in the New Republic / George Dargo
18
[From] "The 'Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law / Edward S. Corwin
24
[From] Politics / Aristotle
26
[From] The Spirit of the Laws / Montesquieu
34
[From] American Constitutional Law / Laurence Tribe
40
Concord Resolutions (1776)
42
[From] Pennsylvania Constitution (1776)
43
[From] New York Constitution (1777)
45
[From] Articles of Confederation (1781)
46
James Madison, The Federalist 45
47
James Madison, The Federalist 50
51
Sect. 2 Constitutional Rights and Natural Law
53
[From]"Individual Rights" / Lawrence C. Becker
57
[From] Fundamental Legal Conceptions / Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
60
[From] Social Philosophy / Joel Feinberg
68
[From] "The 'Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law" / Edward S. Corwin
74
[From] The Second Treatise of Civil Government / John Locke
82
[From] Anarchical Fallacies / Jeremy Bentham
94
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (1789)
100
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
101
The Federalist 84 / Alexander Hamilton
104
Sect. 3 Democracy, Representation, and Legislative Process
106
[From] Politics / Aristotle
108
[From] Considerations on Representative Government / John Stuart Mill
115
[From] Democracy in America / Alexis De Tocqueville
120
[From] In Defense of Anarchism / Robert Paul Wolff
127
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
134
Writing a Position Paper
134
Ch. 2The Nature of the Judicial Process and the Concept of Law
137
Sect. 1 Judicial Review and the Common Law
140
[From] The Common Law / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
143
[From] Paradoxes of Legal Science / Benjamin Cardozo
144
[From] An Introduction to Legal Reasoning / Edward Levi
146
[From] Legal System and Lawyers' Reasonings / Julius Stone
151
[From] The Politics of Law / David Kairys
158
[From] The Tempting of America / Robert Bork
163
[From] "An Essay on Constitutional Language" / Frederick Schauer
171
[From] Democracy and Distrust / John Hart Ely
183
[From] "Justice Engendered" / Martha Minow
201
Sect. 2 The Concept of Law
218
[From] The Concept of Law / H. L. A. Hart
223
"Natural" Law Revisited / Ronald A. Dworkin
239
[From] The Nature and Sources of Law / John Chipman Gray
257
Toward a Theory of Law and Patriarchy / Janet Rifkin
265
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
272
How To Read a Case
272
How To Evaluate a Theory
273
[From] The Morality of Law / Lon L. Fuller
275
[From] Law and the Modern Mind / Jerome Frank
279
Unit II
Private Law and Individual Interests
283
[From] Law in the New Republic / George Dargo
287
Ch. 3The Nature of Contracts and the Value of Freedom
293
[From] Contract as Promise / Charles Fried
301
[From] Promises, Morals, and Law / Patrick S. Atiyah
315
[From] Ancient Law / Henry Maine
329
[From] Law and the Rise of Capitalism / M. E. Tigar M. R. Levy
332
Contract Obligation and the Human Will / Max Radin
339
Mugler v. Kansas (1887)
347
Chicago, Minneapolis, & St. Paul Railroad Co. v. Minnesota (1890)
348
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)
348
Lochner v. New York (1905)
349
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
352
Coppage v. Kansas (1915)
352
Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
353
Nebbia v. New York (1934)
354
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
355
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
356
"A Legal, Moral, Social Nightmare"
357
A Surrogate's Story
361
'Baby M' Contract Illegal, Court in New Jersey Rules
362
Panel OK's Bill to Outlaw Surrogate Parenthood
363
Ch. 4The Nature of Property and the Value of Justice
365
Ownership / A. M. Honore
370
[From] Second Treatise of Civil Government / John Locke
376
[From] Principles of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill
383
[From] Progress and Poverty / Henry George
390
[From] Capital / Karl Marx
396
[From] Anarchy, State, and Utopia / Robert Nozick
399
Property, Title and Redistribution / A. M. Honore
416
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
421
Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. (1926)
422
Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas (1974)
423
State of New Jersey v. Peter K. Shack and Frank Tejeras (1971)
425
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York (1978)
428
Construction Industry Ass'n of Sonoma County v. The City of Petaluma (1975)
430
Ch. 5The Nature of Tort Law and Personal Responsibility
434
[From] Torts and Compensation / Dan B. Dobbs
442
[From] The Law of Torts / William Prosser
447
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company
456
In Re Arbitration between Polemis and Furness, Withy & Co., Limited
463
[From] Causation in the Law / H. L. A. Hart A. M. Honore
465
Omissions, Causation and Liability / Douglas N. Husak
477
[From] An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation / Jeremy Bentham
484
[From] The Law of Torts / Fowler Harper Fleming James
488
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, Or Debates
494
[From] Statutes Establishing a Duty to Report Crimes or Render Assistance to Strangers: Making Apathy Criminal / Susan J. Hoffman
494
Unit III
Public Law and the Public Interest
499
[From] "The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation" / Abram Chayes
504
Ch. 6The Nature of Crime and Punishment
513
Sect. 1 What Justifies Criminal Prohibitions?
515
[From] On Liberty / John Stuart Mill
518
[From] "Crime and the Concept of Harm" / John Kleinig
530
[From] A History of American Law / Lawrence Friedman
541
Morals Offenses and the Model Penal Code / Louis B. Schwartz
550
Sect. 2 Criminal Responsibility and the Meaning of Guilt
560
[From] Ethical Theory / Richard B. Brandt
562
[From] A History of American Law / Lawrence Friedman
568
[From] Model Penal Code
570
[From] General Principles of Criminal Law / Jerome Hall
574
[From] The Limits of the Criminal Sanction / Herbert Packer
578
Sect. 3 Punishment: Justification and Alternatives
583
[From] A History of American Law / Lawrence Friedman
585
[From] Ethical Theory / Richard B. Brandt
591
[From] The Rationale of Legal Punishment / Edmund L. Pincoffs
598
Marxism and Retribution / Jeffrie G. Murphy
607
[From] The Crime of Punishment / Karl Menninger
622
[From] "Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice" / Randy E. Barnett
629
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
637
Cases on Capital Punishment
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
638
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
647
Penry v. Lynaugh (1988)
652
Ch. 7The Nature of Civil Rights
658
Sect. 1 Civil Rights and the Value of Freedom
660
[From] On Liberty / John Stuart Mill
665
Symbolic Conduct and Freedom of Speech / Fred R. Berger
683
The Enemy Within: The American Nazis and Symbolic Conduct / Nat Hentoff
691
Cases on Civil Liberties and the First Amendment
Schenck v. United States (1919)
695
Abrams et al v. United States (1919)
695
Dennis v. United States (1951)
697
Feiner v. New York (1951)
699
Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)
700
Cox v. Louisiana (1965)
700
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
702
Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America (1977)
703
Privacy and Autonomy / Hyman Gross
708
The Scope of Privacy in Law and Ethics / Judith Wagner DeCew
715
Cases on the Constitutional Right of Privacy
728
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
728
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
728
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
729
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
729
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
732
Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
733
Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
733
Roe v. Wade (1973)
733
Bowers v. Hardwick (1987)
737
Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
739
Sect. 2 Civil Rights and the Value of Justice
744
[From] The Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle
749
Justice as Fairness / John Rawls
761
[From] "Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law" / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
778
Cases on Discrimination and Equal Protection of the Law
794
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
794
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
796
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
799
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
801
[From] "On Protecting the Poor through the Fourteenth Amendment / Frank I. Michelman
807
[From] A History of American Law / Lawrence Friedman
815
Cases on Poverty and Equal Protection of the Law
[From] Civil Liberties and the Constitution / L. J. Barker T. W. Barker, Jr.
821
Ortwein v. Schwab (1973)
825
United States v. Kras (1973)
826
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriquez (1973)
827
Harris v. McRae (1980)
832
Ideas for Class Projects, Papers, or Debates
836
"Hate TV"
837
App. The Constitution of the United States of America
839
App. The Declaration of Independence
848
App. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
852