The Morality of Conflict : Reasonable Disagreement and the Law.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. THE ISSUE -- II. THE SIGNIFICANCE -- III. THE APPROACH -- IV. THE STRUCTURE -- Part One: The Nature of Disagreement -- 1. The Notion and Types of Disagreement -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE NOTION OF DISAGREEMENT -- II. THE TYPES OF DISAGREEMENT -- III. THE FACT OF DISAGREEMENT AND THE ONTOLOGICAL CHALLENGE -- CONCLUSION -- 2. The Sources of Disagreement and Legal Indeterminacy -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE SOURCES OF DISAGREEMENT -- II. FROM MORAL DISAGREEMENT TO LEGAL INDETERMINACY -- CONCLUSION -- 3. The Essential Contestability of Normative Concepts -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE CONCEPT OF 'ESSENTIALLY CONTESTABLE CONCEPT' -- II. THE SOURCES OF ESSENTIAL CONTESTABILITY -- III. MINIMAL AGREEMENT IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISPUTABLE PARADIGMS -- CONCLUSION -- 4. The Reasonableness of Disagreement -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE NOTION OF REASONABLENESS -- II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REASON -- III. THE BURDENS OF REASON -- IV. THE IMPLICATIONS OF REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Part Two: The Significance of Disagreement -- 5. The State of Nature Fiction -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE FICTION AS ARGUMENT -- II. SOME NON-FICTIONAL OBJECTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 6. Disagreement as a Source of Coordination Problems -- INTRODUCTION -- I. COORDINATION PROBLEMS AND WHY WE NEED TO SOLVE THEM -- II. LAW AS A WAY OF CONTRIBUTING TO SECURING COORDINATION -- III. COORDINATION AS LAW'S MAIN FUNCTION -- CONCLUSION -- Part Three: The Response to Disagreement -- Section One: Law-Making Procedures -- 7. Deliberative 'Voting Ethics' -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE LEGITIMACY OF PROCEDURAL LEGITIMACY -- II. THE JUSTIFICATION OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION -- III. DELIBERATION AND DISAGREEMENT -- IV. THE INESCAPABILITY OF VOTING -- V. VOTING AFTER DELIBERATING -- VI. DELIBERATIVE 'VOTING ETHICS'.

CONCLUSION -- 8. Four Arguments Against Compromising Justice Internally -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE CONCEPT OF COMPROMISE -- II. THE JUSTIFICATION OF COMPROMISE -- III. THE LIMITATIONS OF COMPROMISE -- IV. DEMOCRACY AS A FAIR COMPROMISE -- CONCLUSION -- Section Two: Law-Making Institutions -- 9. Constitutional Rights Qua Legislative Precommitment -- INTRODUCTION -- I. A FEW DEFINITIONS -- II. THE PRECOMMITMENT MODEL OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS -- III. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE PRECOMMITMENT CONCEPTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV. A COUNTEROBJECTION: THE CONSTITUTIONALISATION OF DEMOCRACY -- V. THE PRECOMMITMENT MODEL REVISITED -- CONCLUSION -- 10. Participation and the Paradox of Democratic Representation -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE CONTOURS OF DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION -- II. THE CHALLENGE OF DISAGREEMENT -- III. THE COUNTERCHALLENGE -- IV. THE REPRESENTATION OF DISAGREEMENT RECONCEPTUALISED -- V. SOME IMPLICATIONS: THE DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY OF REPRESENTATION -- CONCLUSION -- Section Three: The Content of Law -- 11. Integrity: Should the Law Speak with One Voice? -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRITY -- II. THE CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENTS OF INTEGRITY -- III. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF INTEGRITY -- IV. THE VALUE OF INTEGRITY -- CONCLUSION -- 12. Conflicts of Constitutional Rights: Nature, Typology and Resolution -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE NATURE OF RIGHTS -- II. THE NATURE OF CONFLICTS OF RIGHTS -- III. THE TYPOLOGY OF CONFLICTS OF RIGHTS -- IV. THE RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS OF RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- Section Four: The Authority of Law -- 13. Coordination-based Obligations to Obey the Law -- INTRODUCTION -- I. DEFINITIONS AND DELIMITATIONS -- II. THE MIXED PEDIGREE OF COORDINATION-BASEDDUTIES TO OBEY THE LAW -- III. COORDINATION-BASED OBLIGATIONSQUA OBLIGATIONS OF FAIR PLAY -- IV. RAZ'S THREE CONDITIONS FOR AUTHORITY -- CONCLUSION.

14. Democracy, Disagreement and Disobedience -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE AUTHORITY OF DEMOCRATIC LAW -- II. DISOBEDIENCE TO DEMOCRATIC LAW -- III. THE JUSTIFICATION OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores the relationship between the law and pervasive and persistent reasonable disagreement about justice.

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