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4Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers, philosophers and leading military experts grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. The book examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists without giving them the safeguards of a fair trial.
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9A liberal theory of international justiceOxford University Press. 2009.This book advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her rights are placed at center stage insofar as political states are judged legitimate if they adequately protect the human rights of their constituents and respect the rights of all others. Yet, the book argues that legit…Read more
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9Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal CritiquePrinceton University Press. 1990.Scholars in the "Critical Legal Studies" movement have challenged some of the most cherished ideals of modern Western legal and political thought. CLS thinkers claim that the rule of law is a myth and that its defense by liberal thinkers is riddled with inconsistencies. This first book-length liberal reply to CLS systematically examines the philosophical underpinnings of the CLS movement and exposes the deficiencies in the major lines of CLS argument against liberalism.
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3Nozick’s Theory of Value and its ImplicationsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 139-153. 1984.
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16Review of Mari J. Matsuda: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment. (review)Ethics 106 (1): 211-213. 1995.
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23Debating PornographyOup Usa. 2018.Pornography is everywhere, and it raises a host of difficult questions. What counts as pornography, first of all? When does material cross the line from being erotic to being objectionable? Where does a person's entitlement to sexual freedom end and another person's right not to feel objectified begin? How should rights be weighed against consequences in deciding what laws and policies ought to be adopted? Philosophers Andrew Altman and Lori Watson explore these and other issues in this succinct…Read more
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3Buchanan , Allen . Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force .Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 332. $74.00 (cloth) (review)Ethics 121 (3): 647-651. 2011.
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2Targeted Killing: A Legal and Political History, Markus Gunneflo , 290 pp., $110 clothEthics and International Affairs 31 (1): 103-105. 2017.
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5Democratic Self‐Determination and the Disenfranchisement of FelonsJournal of Applied Philosophy 22 (3): 263-273. 2005.
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4Review of Andrew Altman: Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique (review)Ethics 101 (4): 885-886. 1991.
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3The Persistent Fiction of Harm to HumanityEthics and International Affairs 20 (3): 367-372. 2006.
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Justice: Critical Legal Theory: No Dogs or Philosophers AllowedDVD. forthcoming.What makes the law the Law? Are the rules set by society based on immutable truths and forms of nature, or are they more like an evolving draft of guidelines for human conduct? Is the law the product of disinterested reason, or do the critical legal theorists have a point when they trace the shape of the law to the centers of power in our society? With Mark Tushnet, Andy Altman, and Jude Dougherty
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9Arguing about Law: An Introduction to Legal PhilosophyCengage Learning. 2001.Using the rule of law as its main theme, this text shows how abstract questions and concepts of legal philosophy are connected to concrete legal, political, and social issues. The text addresses several modern controversies and challenges students to consider both sides of an argument, using sound, reasoned thinking.
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