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37The Germ of Justice: Essays in General JurisprudenceOxford University Press. 2023.A collection of the author's new and reprinted papers in general jurisprudence. Chapters: Introduction: A Philosophy of Legal Philosophy Law, As Such 1. The Concept of Law Revisited 2. Law as a Means 3. Custom and Convention at the Foundations of Law 4. Realism and the Sources of Law 5. Feminism in Jurisprudence Law and Morality 6. The Germ of Justice 7. The Inseparability of Law and Morals 8. The Morality in Law 9. The Role of a Judge 10. Should Law Improve Morality? The Demands of Law 11. Hume…Read more
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15Associative Obligations and the StateIn Justine Burley (ed.), Dworkin and His Critics, Blackwell. 2004-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: I Legitimacy and Consent II Obligations of True Community III Integrity and Obedience IV Individuality and Community V The Universality of Obligation Acknowledgement.
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9Filosofía del derecho general: ensayo del 25 aniversarioProblema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (3): 289-320. 2009.Surveying developments in a quarter-century of Anglophone legal philosophy, Leslie Green argues that there has been progress in some problems, such as the understanding of rules and reasons in the law; that in other areas —in particular, in discussions of the relationship between law and morality— there has been a marked narrowing of attention; and that with respect to the relationship between law and coercion, we have advanced very little beyond HLA Hart’s 1961 argument against reductionism. He…Read more
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On being toleratedIn Matthew H. Kramer (ed.), The legacy of H.L.A. Hart: legal, political, and moral philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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6Kelsen revisited: new essays on the pure theory of law (edited book)Hart Publishing. 2013.Forty years after his death, Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) remains one of the most discussed and influential legal philosophers of our time. This collection of new essays takes Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law as a stimulus, aiming to move forward the debate on several central issues in contemporary jurisprudence. The essays in Part I address legal validity, the normativity of law, and Kelsen's famous but puzzling idea of a legal system's 'basic norm'. Part II engages with the difficult issues raised by th…Read more
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15Oxford studies in philosophy of law volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.This volume provides a forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The chapters range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning); the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal law to evidence to international law); the history of legal philosophy; and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory.
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1Positivism, realism, and sources of lawIn Torben Spaak (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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ObligationsIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press Uk. 2002.
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Law and ObligationsIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press Uk. 2002.
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110PornographiesJournal of Political Philosophy 8 (1). 2000.To be radical about pornography used to mean that one favored less censorship; now it often means that one favors more. That political change reflects a shift in the dominant paradigm of pornography and its putative evils. Until quite recently, most people who believed pornography wrong thought that it offended against decency and propriety and was therefore obscene. That was certainly the view of the law. English judges first created the crime of obscene libel in 1727 on the basis that such exp…Read more
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2Gender and the Analytical Jurisprudential MindModern Law Review 83 (4): 893-912. 2020.Because gender norms shape the content and application of the law, feminist scholarship has a lot to contribute to the study of law. Gender is also relevant to several problems in normative jurisprudence, and to some problems in special jurisprudence (the study of concepts in the law). But gender has no relevance to general jurisprudence for there is no sense in which the concept of law is ‘gendered’, and no answer to leading problems in general jurisprudence depends on any thesis about gender…Read more
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3Joseph Vining, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (4): 169-170. 1987.
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16Book Review: Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human RightsMaking Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By NickelJames W.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 253. $29.50 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (4): 516-518. 1989.
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16Law and the Role of a JudgeIn Kimberly Kessler Ferzan & Stephen J. Morse (eds.), Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S. Moore, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.This chapter argues that the role of a judge consists of obligations to apply the law, obligations to improve the law, and obligations to protect the law. It defends this view against a competing suggestion by Michael Moore, who claims that, when acting judicially, judges are always obligated to apply the law, and the law alone. I argue that this depends on an incorrect view of the relationship between social roles and moral obligations, and an unacceptably capacious view of what the law is. I c…Read more
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37Review of Philip Soper, The Ethics of Deference: Learning From Law's Morals (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (4). 2003.
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9Book Review: Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (4): 516-518. 1989.
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2Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence, philosophical foundations of specific areas of law, and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.
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9Review of George Klosko: The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (review)Ethics 104 (2): 392-394. 1994.
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11Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2011.Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence, the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law, the history of legal philosophy, and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory. OSPL will be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historia…Read more
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71The Forces of Law: Duty, Coercion, and PowerRatio Juris 29 (2): 164-181. 2016.This paper addresses the relationship between law and coercive force. It defends, against Frederick Schauer's contrary claims, the following propositions: The force of law consists in three things, not one: the imposition of duties, the use of coercion, and the exercise of social power. These are different and distinct. Even if coercion is not part of the concept of law, coercion is connected to law many important ways, and these are amply recognized in contemporary analytic jurisprudence. We ca…Read more
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1Joseph Vining, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian (review)Philosophy in Review 7 169-170. 1987.
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5Law and the Community: The End of Individualism?Carswell Legal Publications. 1989.Based on a conference held at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 24-25 March, 1988.
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1ObligationsIn Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. 2002.
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Tolerance and UnderstandingIn Matthew H. Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn & Antony Hatzistavrou (eds.), The legacy of H.L.A. Hart: legal, political, and moral philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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