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3Review of Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 26 515-20. 2013.
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2The Conscience of an AnarchistCobden Press. 2011.Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily— without the aggressive violence of the state. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary, and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom.
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2Natural Law and Animal RightsCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23 (1): 33-46. 2010.The new classical natural law theorists have been decidedly skeptical about claims that non-human animals deserve serious moral consideration. Their theory features an array of incommensurable, nonfungible basic aspects of welfare and a set of principles governing participation in and pursuit of these goods. Attacks on animals’ interests seem to be inconsistent with one or more of these principles. But leading natural law theorists maintain that animals do not participate in basic aspects of wel…Read more
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1Review of Peter Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 28 237-40. 2015.
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1Richard Rorty's American FaithAnglican Theological Review 85 255-82. 2003.Critiques the political theory articulated in and evidently presupposed by Rorty's Achieving Our Country. Argues for greater political radicalism and theological realism.
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1Aligning Natural and Positive Law: The Case of Non-Human SentientsIn Andreas Blank (ed.), Animals: New Essays, Philosophia. pp. 355-75. 2016.Examines the possibility of converging support for animal well being rendered by a non-standard version of new classical natural law theory and the kind of institutional framework suggested by spontaneous-order natural law theory. Argues that non-state mechanisms consistent with the latter kind of natural law theory could maintain the rights defended by the former.
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Reconciling Rawls and Hayek?The Independent Review 17 577-88. 2013.Assesses John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness
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A Progressive Case for a Universal Transaction Tax.Maine Law Review 58 1-16. 2006.Concerns with autonomy and privacy, among other factors (including the potential to move toward a basic income scheme), could give progressives reason to favor replacing the personal income tax with a universal transaction tax (so named to distinguish it from transaction taxes just applied to consumer sales, for instance).
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Understanding FriendshipFortress Press. 2022.An exploration of the meaning of friendship and its moral, political, and spiritual significance.
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Two Faces of the Right to Privacy in Litigators' EthicsLitigation Ethics 4 (2). 2006.Explores a tension between clients' rights to informational privacy and lawyers' rights to flourishing privates lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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Review of Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is (review)The Independent Review 21 302-306. 2016.
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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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Richard SwinburneIn Ian Markham (ed.), Blackwell Companion to the Theologians. 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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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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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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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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