Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities: Essays on the Influence of Larry Alexander

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Heidi M. Hurd
Cambridge University Press, Nov 22, 2018 - Law - 463 pages
Larry Alexander / Heidi M. Hurd -- Kinds of punishment / Douglas Husak -- Partial responsibility and excuse / David O. Brink -- "Thank God I failed" / R.A. Duff -- Does duress justify or excuse? : the significance of Larry Alexander's ambivalence / Peter Westen -- Alternative lesser evils / Gideon Yaffe -- Justifying academic freedom : Mill and Marcuse revisited / Brian Leiter -- Vindicating judicial supremacy / Laurence Claus -- Alexander's "simple-minded originalism" / Connie S. Rosati -- Subjective versus objective intentionalism in legal interpretation / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- Simple-minded originalism? simply wrong! / Lawrence B. Solum -- Intentions in tension / Frederick Schauer -- Alexander's constitutionalism : a qualified defense / Alon Harel -- For legal principles / Mitchell N. Berman -- The court, or the constitution? / William Baude -- Alexander as anarchist / Steven D. Smith -- Exclusionary rules / Emily Sherwin -- Larry Alexander and "the gap" / Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni -- Respect and discrimination / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- The means principle and optimific wrongs / Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Deontology's travails / Richard Arneson -- The rationality of threshold deontology / Michael S. Moore -- Real-world criminal law and the norm against punishing the innocent : two cheers for threshold deontology / Kevin Cole -- Appreciation and responses / Larry Alexander.
 

Contents

Mill and Marcuse Revisited 113
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For Legal Principles
243
The Court or the Constitution?
261
Exclusionary Rules
277
Larry Alexander and the Gap
305
Respect and Discrimination
319
2O The Means Principle and Optimific Wrongs
335
Deontologys Travails
351
Michael S Moore
372
Appreciation and Responses
409
Bibliography of Works by Larry Alexander
442
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Heidi M. Hurd is the Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois. She has published articles in leading law and philosophy journals on topics in criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, environmental ethics, and moral and political philosophy, and is the author of Moral Combat (Cambridge, 1999).

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