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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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Review of Jason Brennan, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (review)Independent Review 17 807-12. 2013.
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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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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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Intellectual Property and Natural LawAustralian Journal of Legal Philosophy 36 58-88. 2011.Explains why a natural law theory of property rights need not be hospitable to intellectual property.
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Pursuing the Millennium Goals at the Grassroots: Selecting Development Projects Serving Rural Women in Sub-Saharan AfricaUCLA Women's Law Journal 15 71-114. 2006.Examines criteria for settling on productive and situation-appropriate development projects.
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Truth-Telling, Incommensurability, and the Ethics of GradingBrigham Young University Education and Law Journal 3 37-81. 2003.Develops an approach to think normatively about the assignment of grades. Argues that grades should reflected reasonably estimated subject-matter competence rather than the quantity of submitted work or moral character. Responds to alternatives labeled "academic retributivism" and "academic consequentialism." Applies to the model to a variety of concrete grading policy issues.
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Review of Nicholas Lash, The Beginning and the End of 'Religion' (review)Andrews University Seminary Studies 37 125-28. 1999.
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Radical Liberalism and Social FreedomIn Roger Bissell, Chris Matthew Sciabarra & Ed Younkins (eds.), The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom, Roman & Littlefield. pp. 255-74. 2019.Defends a link between political and social freedom, and argues both for an understanding of social freedom and for institutional safeguards for this kind of freedom.
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Left-Wing Market Anarchism and Natural LawStudies in Emergent Order 7 314-24. 2014.Defends the variety of natural-law anarchism developed in Anarchy and Legal Order against multiple criticisms, primarily methodological.
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Toward a New Employer-Worker CompactEmployee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 9 51-119. 2005.Proposes a new model of worker-employer relationships in the US employment context, involving shifts in law and social norms and designed to offer options of potential value to both progressives and libertarians. Emphasizes the importance of decentralized governance and of decoupling income support and other social services from employment.
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Marriage: A Normative FrameworkFlorida Coastal Law Review 9 347-434. 2008.Develops a model of marriage as the chosen institutionalization of love. Builds on a phenomenological account of love to make sense of marital promises and to identify the kinds of promises it makes sense for marriage partners to make.
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Contested Practices: Arthur Isak Applbaum's Ethics for AdversariesJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 16 254-77. 2002.Examines Applbaum's elaboration, on contractualist grounds, of a plausible understanding of adversarial ethics, primarily but not exclusively in the contest of the legal system. Raises criticisms of what are arguably unnecessary concessions and offers the behavior of US government lawyers in the Korematsu case as an example for consideration.
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La Sierra UniversityDepartment of Management and Marketing, Zapara School of BusinessDistinguished Professor