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Righting Narrative: Robert Chang, Poststructuralism, and the Limits of CritiqueUCLA Asian Pacific-American Law Journal 7 105-32. 2001.Suggests that radical critique in support of empowerment and inclusion is best undertaken from a standpoint that endorses moral objectivity, and that affirming such a standpoint is compatible with an awareness of historical and cultural situatedness.
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Review of Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State, and Public Choice (review)The Review of Austrian Economics 28 361-63. 2015.
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Natural Law, the Common Good, and the StateIn Jonathan Crowe & Constance Lee (eds.), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory. pp. 347-68. 2019.Argues for a framework understanding of the common good, one that does not depend on the existence and operation of the state, in the context of new classical natural law theory.
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Toward a Theology and Ethics of FriendshipDissertation, Cambridge University. 1991.Examines a range of issues related to the experience of close interpersonal friendship, including the nature of friendship and links between friendship and spirituality, ethics, and politics. Combines philosophical, religious, and social-scientific perspectives.
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Consumers, Boycotts, and Non-Human AnimalsBuffalo Environmental Law Journal 12 123-94. 2005.Considers the ways in which alternative moral positions—consequentialism, natural law theory (adjusted to incorporate recognition of non-human animals' moral standing), and Stephen Clark's version of Aristotelian virtue ethics—respond to the question whether a boycott of the meat industry is morally obligatory. Investigates the likely responses of the various positions to a range of casuistic concerns.
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Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural PovertyMinor Compositions-Autonomedia. 2011.A collection of classical and contemporary sources highlighting the radical potential of the individualist anarchist tradition.
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Natural law and socioeconomic rightsIn Tom P. S. Angier, Iain T. Benson & Mark Retter (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of natural law and human rights, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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Peoples or Person?: Revising Rawls on Global JusticeBoston College International and Comparative Law Review 27 1-97. 2004.Argues that the reasons Rawls offers in The Law of Peoples for rejecting cosmopolitanism are unpersuasive and that Rawls's resistance to cosmopolitanism is associated with other problematic features of his approach, including his stance regarding justice in warfare; an individualist, cosmopolitan approach would resolve evident difficulties in Rawls's position.
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Review of Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is (review)The Independent Review 21 302-306. 2016.
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Richard SwinburneIn Ian Markham (ed.), Blackwell Companion to the Theologians, 2 Volume Set, Wiley. 2009.Examines the distinguished philosopher Richard Swinburne's project in philosophical theology.
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Anarchism as a Research Program in LawGriffith Law Review 21 293-206. 2012.Examines various aspects of anarchism relevant to or illuminated by legal theory.
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Review of Jason Brennan, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (review)Independent Review 17 807-12. 2013.
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Consumption, Development Aid, and Natural LawWashington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 13 205-57. 2007.Examines how new classical natural law theory might respond to the question what kind of personal giving in support of international development efforts might be morally obligatory. Examines a range of examples offered by natural law thinkers.
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Natural law and socioeconomic rightsIn Tom P. S. Angier, Iain T. Benson & Mark Retter (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of natural law and human rights, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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Incommensurable GoodsIn Jonathan Crowe & Constance Lee (eds.), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory. pp. 252-65. 2019.Updates earlier arguments for the plausibility of the thesis that basic aspects of well being are incommensurable, a thesis central to new classical natural law theory. Responds to objections from Jonathan Crowe and Jason Brennan.
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Incommensurable Basic GoodsAustralian Journal of Legal Philosophy 40 1-16. 2015.Defends the view that basic aspects of well being should be understood as incommensurable.
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Niebuhr's Ghost?Conversations in Religion and Theology 5 91-115. 2006.Critically examines Peter Beinart's attempt to articulate a muscular liberalism with parallels to Cold War liberalism. Challenges Beinart's position as risking inconsistency with just war norms, among others.
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Divorce: A Normative AnalysisFlorida Coastal Law Review 10 1-32. 2008.Is divorce reasonable, given that marital promises are often apparently unqualified? I explain a variety of ways in which one can take promises seriously and recognize the value of genuinely unqualified love in marriage while recognizing that it may be reasonable in particular cases to treat marital promises as non-binding.
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Pirate Constitutions and Workplace DemocracyJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 18 449-67. 2010.Considers Peter Leeson's arguments regarding the economic viability of workplace democracy.
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Loving Friends and Loving GodSpectrum 27 (4): 11-22. 1999.Examines issues in ethics and philosophical theology raised by the attempt to understand the relationship between particular creaturely loves and love for God.
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La Sierra UniversityDepartment of Management and Marketing, Zapara School of BusinessDistinguished Professor