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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2

Edited by Leslie Green · Brian Leiter
Oxford University Press September 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199679836
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
September 2013
Format
Paperback , 320 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • The second volume in a prestigious new series
  • Features work from an international team of leading scholars
  • Presents cutting-edge research in the philosophy of law
  • All papers newly written and published here for the first time

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 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. OSPL will be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historians of law who wish to keep up with the latest developments in this flourishing field.

 

Readership: Scholars and students in philosophy of law; academic lawyers; moral, political, and social philosophers.

Table of Contents

1: Stephen Perry: Political Authority and Political Obligation
2: Barbara Levenbook: How to Hold the Social Fact Thesis: A Reply to Greenberg and Toh
3: Matthew Kramer: John Austin on Punishment
4: Bruno Celano: Publicity and the Rule of Law
5: Michael Giudice: Hart and Kelsen on International Law
6: R. A. Duff: Relational Reasons and the Criminal Law
7: C. L. Ten: Fairness and the Justifying Aim of Punishment
8: Hanoch Sheinman: The Embedding Social Context of Promises and Contracts
9: Luis Duarte d'Almeida: Legal Sex

About the Author

Edited by Leslie Green, University of Oxford, Balliol College, and Brian Leiter, University of Chicago

Leslie Green has visited and taught at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests include jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy and constitutional theory.

Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford, 2007) and was for nearly eight years an editor of the journal Legal Theory.

 

Contributors: 
Bruno Celano, University of Palermo
Luis Duarte d'Almeida, University of Edinburgh
R.A. Duff, University of Stirling
Michael Giudice, York University, Toronto
Matthew Kramer, Churchill College, Cambridge
Barbara Levenbook. North Carolina State University
Stephen Perry, Pennsylvania State University
Hanoch Sheinman, Rice University
C. L. Ten, National University of Singapore

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