Philosophy of Law : The Fundamentals.

Intro -- Philosophy of Law -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 0.1 Philosophy, the Familiar, and the Unfamiliar -- 0.2 What Are Our Commonplaces About Law? -- 0.2.1 Law is a social phenomenon -- 0.2.2 Law is authoritative -- 0.2.3 Law is for the common good -- 0.3 The Course of Our Inquiry -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 1 Analytical Fundamentals: The Concept of Law -- 1.1 The Question, and its Importance -- 1.2 Basic Austinianism -- 1.3 Positivist Lessons -- 1.4 Hartian Positivism -- 1.5 Interlude: Hard and Soft Positivisms -- 1.6 Natural Law Theory -- 1.6.1 Fuller's procedural natural law theory -- 1.6.2 Aquinas's substantive natural law theory -- 1.7 A Suggested Resolution -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Normative Fundamentals: The Basic Roles of Paradigmatic Legal Systems -- 2.1 What Are the Basic Roles in Paradigmatic Legal Systems? -- 2.2 The Role of Subject -- 2.3 The Role of Legislator -- 2.4 The Role of Judge -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Aims of Law -- 3.1 The Aims of Law and the Common Good -- 3.2 The Harm-to-others Principle -- 3.3 Challenges to the Harm-to-others Principle -- 3.3.1 Types of harm -- 3.3.2 The party harmed -- 3.4 Morals Legislation -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Nature and Aims of the Criminal Law -- 4.1 Types of Legal Norms -- 4.2 Crime and Punishment -- 4.3 Two Normative Theories of Punishment -- 4.3.1 Utilitarian theories -- 4.3.2 Retributivist theories -- 4.4 Justification and Excuse -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Nature and Aims of Tort Law -- 5.1 Torts and Crimes -- 5.2 Torts and Damages -- 5.3 Economic and Justice Accounts of Negligence Torts -- 5.4 Elements of the Negligence Tort -- 5.4.1 Duty -- 5.4.2 Breach -- 5.4.3 Cause -- 5.4.4 Loss -- 5.5 Damages -- 5.6 Intentional Torts and Torts of Strict Liability -- For Further Reading.

Notes -- Chapter 6 Challenging the Law -- 6.1 Putting Legal Roles to the Question -- 6.2 Against the Role of Subject: Philosophical Anarchism -- 6.3 Against the Role of Legislator: Marxism, Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory -- 6.4 Against the Role of Judge: American Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Index.

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