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Overcoming Law

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Publication details: New Delhi Universal Law Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd. 2007Description: 597p xISBN:
  • 9788175346369
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.100000 POS
Contents:
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.
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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.