| Preface | |
| The Nature of Law and Legal Reasoning | p. 1 |
| Philosophy and the Law | p. 3 |
| What Is Law? | p. 16 |
| Trial of Border Guards, Berlin State Court | p. 20 |
| Opening Address for the United States, Nuremberg Trials | p. 24 |
| Nuremberg: A Fair Trial? | p. 31 |
| Report of the U.N. Secretary General: War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | p. 37 |
| The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice | p. 40 |
| Classical Theories of Law | p. 46 |
| What is Law? | p. 52 |
| Legal Positivism | p. 54 |
| Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals | p. 59 |
| The Morality of Law | p. 69 |
| Modern Theories of Law | p. 75 |
| The Path of the Law | p. 80 |
| A Realistic Jurisprudence - The Next Step | p. 86 |
| "Natural" Law Revisited | p. 90 |
| Contemporary Perspectives | p. 97 |
| Critical Legal Studies: An Introduction to Its Origins and Underpinnings | p. 104 |
| Critical Legal Studies and Liberalism | p. 110 |
| The Economic Approach to Law | p. 116 |
| The Pragmatist and the Feminist | p. 126 |
| Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory | p. 132 |
| Racial Realism | p. 136 |
| Legal Reasoning and the Constitution | p. 142 |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | p. 147 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick | p. 153 |
| The Right of Privacy | p. 158 |
| Originalism: The Lesser Evil | p. 161 |
| Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning | p. 166 |
| Cases for Further Reflection | p. 176 |
| Riggs et al. v. Palmer | p. 176 |
| The Amistad | p. 181 |
| The Antelope | p. 184 |
| The Problem of the Grudge Informer | p. 186 |
| People v. Hall | p. 191 |
| Law, Liberty, and Morality | p. 193 |
| Boundaries of the Law: Enforcing Morality and Justifying Disobedience | p. 194 |
| People v. Edgar S. Bullington | p. 197 |
| On Liberty | p. 200 |
| The Enforcement of Morals | p. 202 |
| Law, Liberty, and Morality | p. 207 |
| United States of America v. Schoon | p. 210 |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | p. 213 |
| Freedom of Expression and Hate-Speech | p. 220 |
| Cohen v. California | p. 223 |
| Liberalism, Speech Codes, and Related Problems | p. 227 |
| Words That Wound | p. 232 |
| Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal? | p. 241 |
| Obscenity and Pornography | p. 245 |
| Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | p. 249 |
| American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut | p. 252 |
| Obscenity as Pornography | p. 257 |
| Pornography: On Morality and Politics | p. 264 |
| Freedom of Religion | p. 271 |
| Minersville School District v. Gobitis | p. 272 |
| Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah | p. 278 |
| Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith | p. 280 |
| The Accommodation of Religion | p. 283 |
| Cases for Further Reflection | p. 290 |
| South Florida Free Beaches Inc. v. City of Miami, Florida | p. 290 |
| Texas v. Johnson | p. 291 |
| Hernandez v. Commonwealth of Virginia | p. 295 |
| Reynolds v. U.S. | p. 297 |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder | p. 299 |
| Equality and the Law | p. 303 |
| Constitutional Equality and Preferential Treatment | p. 304 |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | p. 311 |
| Cheryl J. Hopwood v. State of Texas | p. 315 |
| Puzzles About Equality | p. 319 |
| The Case Against Antidiscrimination Law | p. 322 |
| A Defense of Affirmative Action | p. 331 |
| Affirmative Action | p. 335 |
| Sex, Gender, and Equality | p. 341 |
| United States v. Virginia | p. 346 |
| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County | p. 352 |
| The Dilemma of Difference | p. 356 |
| The Assimilationist Ideal | p. 361 |
| A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Law | p. 369 |
| Cases for Further Reflection | p. 376 |
| Loving v. Virginia | p. 376 |
| Adarand Constructors v. Pena | p. 379 |
| Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney | p. 384 |
| Romer v. Evans | p. 388 |
| Criminal Law | p. 391 |
| What Is a Crime? | p. 392 |
| The Significance of Suffering | p. 398 |
| People v. Dlugash | p. 407 |
| The Crime that Never Was | p. 411 |
| Justification and Excuse | p. 425 |
| Excuses in the Criminal Law | p. 433 |
| State v. Leidholm | p. 442 |
| The Battered Woman's Defense | p. 444 |
| State v. Cameron | p. 452 |
| The Abolition of the Insanity Defense | p. 455 |
| The Decline of Innocence | p. 459 |
| Punishment and Responsibility | p. 467 |
| Penalties and Opportunities | p. 471 |
| The Argument for Retributivism | p. 479 |
| Payne v. Tennessee | p. 484 |
| Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice | p. 489 |
| The Death Penalty | p. 497 |
| Gregg v. Georgia | p. 503 |
| The Death Penalty Once More | p. 508 |
| A Reply to Van Den Haag | p. 515 |
| McCleskey v. Kemp | p. 523 |
| Homicide, Race and Capital Punishment | p. 527 |
| Cases for Further Reflection | p. 536 |
| Goldschmitt v. Florida | p. 536 |
| The Case of the Dog "Provetie" | p. 538 |
| Coker v. Georgia | p. 539 |
| Rummel v. Estelle | p. 543 |
| Tort Law | p. 547 |
| Justice, Compensation, and Tort | p. 549 |
| Hammontree v. Jenner | p. 554 |
| Torts and Compensation | p. 556 |
| Justice and the Costs of Automobile Accidents | p. 560 |
| Individualized Justice, Mass Torts, and "Settlement Class Actions": An Introduction | p. 569 |
| Causation and Liability | p. 574 |
| Lynch v. Fisher | p. 580 |
| Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad | p. 584 |
| Tracing Consequences | p. 590 |
| The Decline of Cause | p. 599 |
| Acts, Omissions, and the Duty to Rescue | p. 609 |
| McFall v. Shimp | p. 613 |
| The Case for a Duty to Rescue | p. 614 |
| Cases for Further Reflection | p. 623 |
| Derdiarian v. Felix Contracting Corp | p. 623 |
| Harper v. Herman | p. 626 |
| Summers v. Tice | p. 628 |
| Yania v. Bigan | p. 631 |
| Legal Citations and Law Reports | p. 635 |
| The Constitution of the United States | p. 637 |
| Legal Resources on the Internet | p. 643 |
| Glossary of Legal Terms | p. 647 |
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