From the Bottom Up - Selected Essays

Informationen zum Autor After earning a graduate degree at Oxford and attending Columbia Law School, where he was editor in chief of the law review, Kent Greenawalt served as law clerk to Justice Harlan and began teaching at Columbia Law School. With brief stints as a visitor at All Souls College, Oxford, and Deputy Solicitor General, he has been teaching at Columbia for 50 years. As a scholar he has written multiple articles and 15 books, the majority of which Oxford has published. Klappentext Constituting a collection of essays written over the last five decades about a wide range of topics, Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up addresses vital ties between the law and political and moral philosophy. Zusammenfassung Constituting a collection of essays written over the last five decades about a wide range of topics, Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up addresses vital ties between the law and political and moral philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents 1. What Are Public Reasons 2. On Religion and Politics in Liberal Democracies 3. Religion and Public Reasons: Making Laws and Evaluating Candidates 4. How Persuasive is Natural Law Theory? 5. Natural Law and Public Reasons 6. Hart's Rule of Recognition and the United States 7. Too Thin and Too Rich: Distinguishing Features of Legal Positivism 8. Legal Enforcement of Morality 9. Law and Objectivity 10. How Empty is the Idea of Equality? 11. Prescriptive Equality: Two Steps Forward 12. From the Bottom Up 13. Distinguishing Justifications from Excuses 14. Promise, Benefit, and Need: Ties that Bind Us to the Law 15. Punishment 16. A Vice of Its Virtues 17. Clear and Present Danger and Criminal Speech 18. Free Speech Justifications 19. Insults and Epithets: Are they Protected Speech? 20. Five Questions about Religion Judges are Afraid to Ask 21. Religious Toleration and Claims of Conscience ...

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• Authors: Kent Greenawalt, Kent (University Professor Greenawalt, Greenawalt Kent
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2016
• EAN: 9780199756162
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975616-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Essays, English, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Constitutional, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, LAW / Essays, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary essays, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law