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For a symposium on the state of play between law and morality, check out the new issue (h/t: Quiqley at Texas) of the HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY, VOLUME 31, NUMBER 1, WINTER 2008.

Table of contents below. Interesting articles from a range of perspectives here.

LAW AND MORALITY

FOREWORD

A FOUNDER'S RETROSPECTIVE: THE JOURNAL AT 30 YEARS

Spencer Abraham         

1

SYMPOSIUM

LAW AND MORALITY: THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL NATIONAL FEDERALIST SOCIETY

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY?2007

ON THE FOUNDATIONS AND NATURE OF MORALITY

Robert P. Burns            

7

 

I. MORAL CHOICES AND THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT

MORAL CHOICES, MORAL TRUTH, AND THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT

Ronald J. Allen 

25

 

METHODOLOGY, PROPORTIONALITY, EQUALITY: WHICH MORAL QUESTION DOES THE

EIGHTH AMENDMENT POSE?

Laurence Claus 

35

 

MORALITY IN EIGHTH AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE

Michael S. Moore          

47

II. GOVERNMENT PROMOTION OF MORAL ISSUES

GOVERNMENT PROMOTION OF MORAL ISSUES: GAMBLING, SMOKING, AND ADVERTISING

Lino A. Graglia

69

 

WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN PROMOTING MORALS? . . . SERIOUSLY?

G. Marcus Cole            

77

 

HOW TO REVERSE GOVERNMENT IMPOSITION OF IMMORALITY: A STRATEGY FOR

ERODING ROE V. WADE

Steven G. Calabresi      

85

 

III. THE MORALITY OF FIRST AMENDMENT

JURISPRUDENCE

 

THE MORALITY OF FIRST AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE

Phyllis Schlafly

95

 

WHY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY IS RIGHT (BUT WRONG) ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY

Andrew Koppelman       

105

 

THE FEDERALIST APPROACH TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT

John O. McGinnis         

127

 

IV. MARRIAGE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE CONSTITUTION

GAY SEX AND MARRIAGE, THE RECIPROCAL DISADVANTAGE PROBLEM, AND THE CRISIS IN LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY

Louis Michael Seidman 

135

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

MORAL DUTY AND THE RULE OF LAW

William H. Pryor Jr.       

153

 

ARTICLES

NATURAL LAW

Robert P. George          

171

 

DRED SCOTT REVISITED

Harry V. Jaffa    

197

 

MODESTY AND MORALISM: JUSTICE, PRUDENCE, AND ABORTION?A REPLY TO SKEEL & STUNTZ

John M. Breen   

219

 

MARRIAGE FACTS

Monte Neil Stewart         

313

 

"PLAY IN THE JOINTS": THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE PERMISSIVE ACCOMMODATION 

UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT         

371

 

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

ENEMY COMBATANTS AND A CHALLENGE TO THE SEPARATION OF WAR POWERS IN

Al-Marri v. Wright, 487 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2007)    

393

 

SAYING WHAT THE LAW SHOULD BE: JUDICIAL USURPATION IN

Al-Marri v. Wright, 487 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2007)    

411

 

JUSTICES IN THE JURY BOX: VIDEO EVIDENCE AND SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN

Scott v. Harris, 127 S. Ct. 1769 (2007)    

423

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