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Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time. This collection of essays brings together esteemed philosophers and junior scholars, to critically assess Kramer's philosophy. The contributions focus on Kramer's work on legal philosophy, metaethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy.
List of contents
- I. RIGHTS AND RIGHT- HOLDING
- 1: Laura K. Donohue: Correlation and Constitutional Rights
- 2: Rowan Cruft: Rights, Positivism, and the Vice of Self-Puffery: Why Kramer's Interest Theory is Nearly Right
- 3: Joseph Bowen: The Interest Theory of Rights at the Margins: Posthumous Rights
- 4: Visa A.J. Kurki: Are Legal Positivism and the Interest Theory of Rights Compatible?
- 5: Mark McBride: Tracking the Resilience of Hybridity
- II. GENERAL JURISPRUDENCE
- 6: Brian H. Bix: Objectivity, Conventions, and the Possibility of Universal Error
- 7: Wilfrid J. Waluchow: and Inclusive Legal Positivism: Dancing on the Head of a Pin?
- 8: Pierluigi Chiassoni: Kramer's Theory of Legal Positivism: Merits and Demerits
- 9: Gerald J. Postema: Law's Existence to Law's Rule: Reflections on Kramer's Understanding of the Rule of Law
- III. GENERAL MAT TERS OF ETHICS
- 10: Christine Tiefensee: Metasemantics, Moral Realism, and Moral Doctrines
- 11: Lubomira Radoilska: Distinguishing Value-Neutrality from Value-Independence: Toward a New Disentangling Strategy for Moral Epistemology
- 12: Michael Garnett: Prevention, Coercion, and Two Concepts of Negative Liberty
- V. LIBERALISM
- 14: Mark R. Reiff: Neutrality and Excellence
- 15: Collis Tahzib: Does Edificatory Perfectionism Express a Quidnunc Mentality?
- VI. APPLIED ETHICS
- 16: R.A. Duff: Punishment and the Importance of Perspective
- 17: Christopher Kutz: Kramer's Razor and the Freedom of Expression
- REPLIES
- 18: Matthew H. Kramer: Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Replies to the Contributors
About the author
Dr Mark McBride is a British and Irish legal scholar and philosopher, and currently an Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore. His active research interests include legal philosophy and epistemology. His work has appeared in publications such as the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, and Episteme. Recently, he has articulated the core of his tracking theory of rights in Analytic Philosophy - a theory which he is developing at length in a forthcoming book, The Tracking Theory of Rights.
Dr Visa AJ Kurki is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His research interests include rights theory, legal personhood, and animal law. His monograph A Theory of Legal Personhood was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and described as "an instant classic" in the Modern Law Review. His work has also appeared in journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory and the German Law Journal.
Summary
Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time. This collection of essays brings together esteemed philosophers and junior scholars, to critically assess Kramer's philosophy. The contributions focus on Kramer's work on legal philosophy, metaethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy.
