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Legal Theory Bookworm

By Lawrence Solum

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory edited by Dennis Patterson. Here is the table of contents:

Part I: Areas of Law:
1. Property Law (Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law).
2. Contract (Peter Benson, University of Toronto).
3. Tort Law (Stephen R. Perry, The University of Pennsylvania Law School).
4. Criminal law (Leo Katz, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law).
5. Public international law (Philip Bobbitt, Columbia Law School).
6. Constitutional law and religion (Perry Dane, Rutgers University School of Law).
7. Constitutional law and interpretation (Philip Bobbitt, Columbia Law School).
8. Constitutional law and privacy (Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School).
9. Constitutional law and equality (Maimon Schwarzschild, The University of San Diego School of Law).
10. Evidence (John Jackson and Sean Doran, Queen?s University of Belfast).
11. Interpretation of statutes (William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School).
12. Conflict of laws (Perry Dane, Rutgers University School of Law).
Part II: Contemporary Schools and Perspectives:
13. Natural law theory (Brian Bix, University of Minnesota Law School).
14. Legal positivism (Jules L. Coleman, Yale Law School and Brian Leiter, University of Chicago).
15. American Legal realism (Brian Leiter, University of Chicago).
16. Critical legal studies (Guyora Binder, The State University of New York).
17. Postrealism and legal process (Neil Duxbury, London School of Economics and Political Science).
18. Feminist jurisprudence (Patricia Smith, The University of Kentucky).
19. Law and economics (Jon D. Hanson, Harvard Law School, Kathleen Hanson, Harvard Law School, and Melissa R. Hart, University of Colorado Law School).
20. Legal formalism (Ernest J. Weinrib, University of Toronto).
21. German legal philosophy and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Alexander Somek, The University of Iowa College of Law).
22. Marxist theory of law (Alan Hunt, Carleton University).
23. Deconstruction (Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School).
24. Law and society (Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University Law).
25. Postmodernism (Dennis Patterson, The European University Institute; Rutgers University School of Law; Swansea University).
26. Kantian legal philosophy (Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto).
27. Legal pragmatism (Richard Warner, Illinois Institute of Technology).
Part III: Topics and Disciplines:
28. Law and Its Normativity (Roger A. Shiner, University of Alberta).
29. Law and Literature (Thomas Morawetz, The University of Connecticut School of Law).
30. The Duty to Obey the Law (M. B. E. Smith, Smith College).
31. Legal Enforcement of Morality (Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University School of Law).
32. Indeterminacy (Lawrence B. Solum, University of Illinois College of Law).
33. Precedent (Larry Alexander, The University of San Diego School of Law).
34. Punishment and Responsibility (George P. Fletcher, Columbia University School of Law).
35. Loyalty (George P. Fletcher, Columbia University School of Law).
36. Coherence (Ken Kress, University of Iowa College of Law).
37. The Welfare State (Sanford Levinson, University of Texas).
38. Legal Scholarship (Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School).
39. Authority of Law (Vincent A. Wellman, Wayne State University Law School).
40. Analogical Reasoning (Jefferson White, The University of Maine).
41. Risk: John Oberdiek (Rutgers University School of Law-Camden).
42. Regulatory Theory (Matthew D. Adler, The University of Pennsylvania Law School).
43. Methodology (Andrew Halpin, Swansea University School of Law).
44. Overcriminalization (Douglas Husak, Rutgers University).
45. Intention (Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden).
46. Coercion (Grant Lamond, Oxford University).
47. Unjust Enrichment (Ernest J. Weinrib, University of Toronto).
48. The Ideal of the Rule of Law (Andrei Marmor, University of Southern California).

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 17, 2010 (boomark / email).