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Posner Richard A

Overcoming Law - New Delhi Universal Law Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd. 2007 - 597p x

Contents:
Preface;
Introduction: Pragmatism, Economics, Liberalism;
Part I: The Profession;
1. The Material Basis of Jurisprudence;
2. The Triumphs and Travails of Legal Scholarship;
3. What Do Judges Maximize?;
4. The Profession in Crisis: Germany and Britain;
Part II: Constitutional Theory;
5. Legal Reasoning from the Top Down and from the Bottom Up;
6. Have We Constitutional Theory?;
7. Legal Positivism without Positive Law;
8. What Am I? A Potted Plant?;
9. Bork and Beethoven;
Part III: Variety and Ideology in Legal Theory;
10. The First Neoconservative;
11. The Left-Wing History of American Legal Thought;
12. Pragmatic or Utopian?;
13. Hegel and Employment at Will;
14. Postmodern Medieval Iceland;
Part IV: Of Gender and Race;
15. Ms. Aristotle;
16. Biology, Economics, and the Radical Feminist Critique of Sex and Reason;
17. Obsessed with Pornography;
18. Nuance, Narrative, and Empathy in Critical Race Theory;
Part V: Philosophical and Economic Perspectives;
19. So What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?;
20. Ronald Coase and Methodology;
21. The New Institutional Economics Meets Law and Economics;
22. What Are Philosophers Good For?;
Part VI: At the Frontier;
23. Law and Literature Revisited;
24. Rhetoric, Legal Advocacy, and Legal Reasoning;
25. The Legal Protection of the Face We Present to the World;
26. Economics and the Social Construction of Homosexuality;
Credits;
Index.


ISBN: 9788175346369

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1.Jurisprudence1. Legal Theory

Dewey Class. No.: 340.100000 / POS