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104Arguing about Law: An Introduction to Legal PhilosophyCengage Learning. 2001.Using the rule of law as its main theme, this text shows how abstract questions and concepts of legal philosophy are connected to concrete legal, political, and social issues. The text addresses several modern controversies and challenges students to consider both sides of an argument, using sound, reasoned thinking.
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Justice: Critical Legal Theory: DvdMilk Bottle Production. 2001.What makes the law the Law? Are the rules set by society based on immutable truths and forms of nature, or are they more like an evolving draft of guidelines for human conduct? Is the law the product of disinterested reason, or do the critical legal theorists have a point when they trace the shape of the law to the centers of power in our society? With Mark Tushnet, Andy Altman, and Jude Dougherty
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69Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique (edited book)Princeton University Press. 1990.In this first book-length liberal reply to CLS, Andrew Altman systematically examines the philosophical underpinnings of the CLS movement and exposes the deficiencies in the major lines of the CLS argument against liberalism.
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620The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, EqualityIn Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 22--307. 2005.
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79Joseph Raz, Value, Respect, and Attachment, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. vi + 178Utilitas 15 (3): 376. 2003.
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26Religion, taxes, and sex discrimination: Where do liberal principles lead?Legal Theory 11 (2): 125-142. 2005.
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53Equality and expression: The radical paradoxSocial Philosophy and Policy 21 (2): 1-22. 2004.The modern liberal state arose as part of a rebellion against the entrenched hierarchies of rank, power, and privilege that had characterized the feudal order of European society. Under that order, a person's prospects in life were determined almost entirely by his status at birth. The individual lacked the liberty to change his social and economic ranking and was rendered dependent on the will of those in higher-ranking positions. It was against this inclusive, closed, and ascriptive system of …Read more
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150Policy, principle, and incrementalism: Dworkin's jurisprudence of race (review)The Journal of Ethics 5 (3): 241-262. 2001.For several decades, Ronald Dworkinhas been one of the most prominent voicesdefending the legality and justifiability ofrace-conscious programs aimed at undoing thecontinuing effects of prejudice. Writingwithin the framework of a liberal legalphilosophy, he has formulated powerfularguments against the view that color-blindpolicies are the only defensible ones. Nonetheless, I argue that a more completeliberal defense of race-conscious policieswould need to develop and modify Dworkin's lineof argu…Read more
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85Freedom of speech and religionIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 358. 2003.
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1Charles Sampford, The Disorder of Law: A Critique of Legal Theory (review)Philosophy in Review 10 198-201. 1990.
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46The Deontological Defense of Democracy: An Argument From Group RightsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (3): 279-293. 2008.Abstract: Democracy is regularly heralded as the only form of government that treats political subjects as free and equal citizens. On closer examination, however, it becomes apparent that democracy unavoidably restricts individual freedom, and it is not the only way to treat all citizens equally. In light of these observations, we argue that the non-instrumental reasons to support democratic governance stem, not from considerations of individual freedom or equality, but instead from the importa…Read more
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508Legal realism, critical legal studies, and DworkinPhilosophy and Public Affairs 15 (3): 205-235. 1986.
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48Race and Democracy: The Controversy Over Racial Vote DilutionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 27 (3): 175-201. 1998.
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142Genocide and crimes against humanity: Dispelling the conceptual fogSocial Philosophy and Policy 29 (1): 280-308. 2012.Research Articles Andrew Altman, Social Philosophy and Policy, FirstView Article
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5Discrimination Debated: A review of Deborah Hellman and Sophia Moreau , Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law (review)Jurisprudence 6 (1): 156-168. 2015.
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33The Democratic Legitimacy of Bias Crime Laws: Public Reason and the Political ProcessLaw and Philosophy 20 (2): 141-173. 2001.No Abstract
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22Norman Geras: Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a Concept: Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011, 162 pp, £47.17, ISBN 978-0-7190-8241-2Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (1): 205-214. 2016.
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42Justice, Epistemology and Ethical CompromiseBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 4 99-110. 1982.
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167Democratic self-determination and the disenfranchisement of felonsJournal of Applied Philosophy 22 (3). 2005.
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7Nozick's Theory of Value and its ImplicationsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 139-153. 2010.
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