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63Moral theories of torts: Their scope and limits: Part II (review)Law and Philosophy 2 (1). 1983.One approach to legal theory is to provide some sort of rational reconstruction of all or of a large body of the common law. For philosophers of law this has usually meant trying to rationalize a body of law under one or another principle of justice. This paper explores the efforts of the leading tort theorists to provide a moral basis - in the sense of rational reconstruction based on alleged moral principles - for the law of torts. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part I consi…Read more
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36Market Contractarianism and the Unanimity Rule*: JULES L. COLEMANSocial Philosophy and Policy 2 (2): 69-114. 1985.This essay is part of a larger project exploring the extent to which the market paradigm might be usefully employed to explain and in some instances justify nonmarket institutions. The focus of the market paradigm in this essay is the relationship between the idea of a perfectly competitive market and aspects of both the rationality of political association and the theory of collective choice. In particular, this essay seeks to identify what connections, if any, exist between one kind of market …Read more
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58Incorporationism, Conventionality, and the Practical Difference ThesisLegal Theory 4 (4): 381-425. 1998.H.L.A. Hart'sThe Concept of Lawis the most important and influential book in the legal positivist tradition. Though its importance is undisputed, there is a good deal less consensus regarding its core commitments, both methodological and substantive. With the exception of an occasional essay, Hart neither further developed nor revised his position beyond the argument of the book. The burden of shaping the prevailing understanding of his views, therefore, has fallen to others: notably, Joseph Raz…Read more
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122Economics and the law: A critical review of the foundations of the economic approach to lawEthics 94 (4): 649-679. 1984.
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43Corrective Justice and Property Rights: JULES L. COLEMANSocial Philosophy and Policy 11 (2): 124-138. 1994.Suppose the prevailing distribution of property rights is unjust as determined by the relevant conception of distributive justice. You have far more than you should have under that theory and I have far less. Then I defraud you and in doing so reallocate resources so that our holdings ex post more closely approximate what distributive justice requires. Do I have a duty to return the property to you? There are many good reasons for requiring me to return to you what I have taken. One is that whil…Read more
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113Beyond the Separability Thesis: Moral Semantics and the Methodology of JurisprudenceOxford Journal of Legal Studies 27 (4): 581-608. 2007.Next SectionIn emphasizing the importance of the separability thesis, legal philosophers have inadequately appreciated other philosophically important ways in which law and morality are or might be connected with one another. In this article, I argue that the separability thesis cannot shoulder the philosophical burdens that it has been asked to bear. I then turn to two issues of greater importance to jurisprudence. These are ‘the moral semantics of law’ and ‘the normativity of theory constructi…Read more
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203Beyond inclusive legal positivismRatio Juris 22 (3): 359-394. 2009.In this essay, I characterize the original intervention that became Inclusive Legal Positivism, defend it against a range of powerful objections, explain its contribution to jurisprudence, and display its limitations and its modest jurisprudential significance. I also show how in its original formulations ILP depends on three notions that are either mistaken or inessential to law: the separability thesis, the rule of recognition, and the idea of criteria of legality. The first is false and is in…Read more
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Market contractarianism and the unanimity ruleIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Jeffrey Paul & Fred Dycus Miller (eds.), Ethics and economics, [published By] B. Blackwell For the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University. 1985.
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7Philosophy and law (edited book)B. Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University. 1987.
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47Private law theory (edited book)Garland. 1994.The Tragedy of the Commons The population prohlem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. ...
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41Crimes and punishments (edited book)Garland. 1994.Meeting of the Aristotelian Society at 21, Bedford Square, London, WCI, on 29/A October,, at 7.30 pm PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ...
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51Markets, morals, and the lawOxford University Press. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: it shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics, and political science.
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7Markets, Morals, and the LawOxford University Press. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science.
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7Markets, Morals, and the LawCambridge University Press. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science. There are four sections in the book. The first offers a new version of legal positivism and an original theory of legal rights. The second section critically evaluates the economic approach to law, and the third considers the relationship of justice to liabilit…Read more
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7Markets, Morals, and the LawOxford University Press UK. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science.
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40Rational Commitment and Social Justice: Essays for Gregory Kavka (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.Gregory S. Kavka was a prominent and influential figure in contemporary moral and political philosophy. The essays in this volume are concerned with fundamental issues of rational commitment and social justice to which Kavka devoted his work as a philosopher. The essays take Kavka's work as a point of departure and seek to advance the respective debates. The topics include: the relationship between intention and moral action as part of which Kavka's famous 'toxin puzzle' is a focus of discussion…Read more
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636'Law'Legal Theory 9 (1): 1-41. 2003.We explore the relationship between jurisprudential theories pertaining to the nature of law and semantic and metasemantic theories pertaining to the meaning of ‘law’ in the wake of Dworkin’s notorious Semantic Sting argument in Law’s Empire (HUP 1986). Along the way we delineate various aspects of the semantic and metasemantic underpinnings of ‘law’ as an artifact term and advance the general methodological point that jurisprudential inquiry is only negligibly constrained by the findings of sem…Read more
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MethodologyIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press Uk. 2002.
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12Beyond Inclusive Legal PositivismRatio Juris 22 (3): 359-394. 2009.In this essay, I characterize the original intervention that became Inclusive Legal Positivism, defend it against a range of powerful objections, explain its contribution to jurisprudence, and display its limitations and its modest jurisprudential significance. I also show how in its original formulations ILP depends on three notions that are either mistaken or inessential to law: the separability thesis, the rule of recognition, and the idea of criteria of legality. The first is false and is in…Read more
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3Readings in the Philosophy of Law (edited book)Routledge. 1999.An extraordinary collection of the finest essays in the core areas of legal philosophy, _Readings in Philosophy of_ _Law_ is a perfect introduction to the breadth of issues covered in the philosophy of law. The essays are all classic papers chosen as much for their clarity of thought and comprehensiveness as for their distinctiveness and importance to the subject matters of legal philosophy. This collection is ideal for the professional as well as the student, as it brings together classic essay…Read more
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214US Senate is considering legislation designed to immunize small businesses from lawsuits brought by customers alleging to have been infected with COVID-19 while on the premises. The legislation seeks to subsidize reopening small businesses by reducing their vulnerability to liability. I argue that the legislation produces worse public health outcomes than existing liability regimes, obliterates claims to redress supported by corrective justice, and unfairly burdens victims by forcing them to b…Read more
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9The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.One of the first volumes in the new series of prestigious Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state of the art overview of jurisprudential scholarship.
Jules Coleman
Constructor University
Florida State University
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Constructor UniversityOther
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The Rockefeller University
Alumnus, 1972