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31Chapter Four. Lying and Freedom of SpeechIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 116-156. 2015.
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30Autonomy, beneficence, and the permanently dementedIn Ronald Dworkin & Justine Burley (eds.), Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin, Blackwell. 2004.
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27Compelled Association, Morality, and Market DynamicsLoyola of Los Angeles Law Review 41 (1): 317-328. 2007.
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26Are Contracts Promises? (pre-publication version)In Andrei Marmor (ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law, Routledge. 2012.
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24Lying, Reciprocity, and Free Speech – A Reply to Eight CriticsLaw and Philosophy 38 (5-6): 555-597. 2019.In this article, I reply to eight critics of my book Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law. The topics include lying, promising, reciprocity, free speech, and the testimonial duties of institutions.
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24Burdens on deliberative freedomJurisprudence 12 (4): 575-578. 2021.Sophia Moreau contends that an important dimension of the wrong of discrimination lies in burdens on deliberative freedom.1 Discrimination may burden deliberative freedom by limiting or otherwise b...
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19Democratic LawOxford University Press. 2021.The book defends the intimate connection between democracy and law by focusing on how democracy permits us to be co-authors of our common community through the use of law. It argues that democratically forged laws are articulate public commitments we make to one another and they are uniquely capable of conveying our mutual respect for one another. For this reason, democratic law is morally imperative and morally inspirational.
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18Reliance arguments, democratic law, and inequityJurisprudence 14 (3): 317-347. 2023.The reversal of Roe v. Wade raises the prospect that other due process guarantees upon which individuals have organised their lives, including the constitutional rights to same-sex intimacy and marriage, will be overturned. These potential upheavals in the hard-won legal infrastructure of basic social status call for a careful look at reliance arguments for sustaining constitutional precedent. When does reliance on a judicial decision provide reason for a court to sustain a precedent in the face…Read more
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16Inducing Moral Deliberation: On the Occasional Virtues of FogHarvard Law Review 123 (5): 1214-1246. 2010.
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16The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (edited book)The University of Utah Press. 2018.Volume 39 of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values includes lectures initially scheduled during the academic year 2019-2020. Owing to the global coronavirus pandemic, some were delivered at a later date. The Tanner Lectures are published in an annual volume. In addition to permanent lectures at nine universities, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values funds special one-time lectures at selected higher educational institutions in the United States and around the world.
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13Are Credit Card Late Fees Unconstitutional?William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 15 (2): 457-500. 2006.
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11Developments in the Law–DNA Evidence and the Criminal DefenseHarvard Law Review 108 (1): 1557-1582. 1995.
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9Chapter Two. Duress and Moral ProgressIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 47-78. 2015.
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9Chapter Six. Sincerity and Institutional ValuesIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 182-224. 2015.
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8Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the LawPrinceton University Press. 2014.To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception.…Read more
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8Autonomy, Beneficence, and the Permanently DementedIn Justine Burley (ed.), Dworkin and His Critics, Blackwell. 2004-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: I II III Acknowledgement.
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8Chapter Five. Accommodation, Equality, and the LiarIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 157-181. 2015.
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7AcknowledgmentsIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. 2015.
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7IntroductionIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-4. 2015.
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3IndexIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 225-234. 2015.
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1Death and Whom to Save from It, vol. 1 of Morality, Mortality (review)Philosophical Review 104 (3): 479-481. 1995.
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Speaking amongst ourselves: democracy and law. Lecture I. Democratic law ; Lecture II. Common and constitutional law: a democratic legal perspective (review)In Rosa Braidotti, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Richard Kraut, Dorothy E. Roberts, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Melanne Verveer & Mark Matheson (eds.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, The University of Utah Press. 2018.
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Egalitarianism, Choice-Sensitivity, and AccomodationIn R. Jay Wallace (ed.), Reason and value: themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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