| Preface | p. xi |
| Law | p. 1 |
| Natural Law Theory | p. 7 |
| "Natural Law Theory" | p. 7 |
| "The Natural Law Theory of St. Thomas Aquinas" | p. 19 |
| The Challenge of Legal Positivism | p. 33 |
| "A Positivist Conception of Law," from The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) | p. 33 |
| "Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules," from The Concept of Law (1961) | p. 45 |
| "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals" | p. 59 |
| "Positivism and Fidelity to Law--A Reply to Professor Hart" | p. 76 |
| "Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law," from The Morality of Law (1964) | p. 91 |
| "Negative and Positive Positivism" | p. 95 |
| Law from the Perspective of the Judge | p. 108 |
| "The Dilemmas of Judges Who Must Interpret 'Immoral Laws'" | p. 108 |
| "The Model of Rules" | p. 130 |
| Riggs v. Palmer, Court of Appeals of New York, 1889 | p. 147 |
| "Integrity in Law," from Law's Empire (1986) | p. 152 |
| "The Third Theory of Law" | p. 167 |
| "The Path of the Law" | p. 174 |
| "Legal Realism," from Law and the Modern Mind (1963) | p. 180 |
| "Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law" | p. 182 |
| The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law | p. 210 |
| Crito | p. 210 |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail," from Why We Can't Wait (1963) | p. 219 |
| "Difference Made Legal: The Court and Dr. King" | p. 227 |
| Liberty | p. 254 |
| The Case for Self-Determination | p. 259 |
| "The Liberal Argument," from On Liberty (1859) | p. 259 |
| Challenges to Self-Determination | p. 271 |
| "Paternalism," from Morality and the Law (1971) | p. 271 |
| Constitutional Privacy | p. 281 |
| Griswold v. Connecticut, United States Supreme Court, 1965 | p. 281 |
| Roe v. Wade, United States Supreme Court, 1973 | p. 287 |
| Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey, United States Supreme Court, 1992 | p. 291 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick, United States Supreme Court, 1986 | p. 295 |
| Freedom of Expression and Its Limits | p. 306 |
| "Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion" | p. 306 |
| Cohen v. California, United States Supreme Court, 1971 | p. 322 |
| Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, Supreme Court of Illinois, 1978 | p. 326 |
| Texas v. Johnson, United States Supreme Court, 1989 | p. 330 |
| "Civil Rights versus Civil Liberties: The Case of Discriminatory Verbal Harassment" | p. 339 |
| Principles of Constitutional Interpretation | p. 356 |
| "The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time Bomb," from The Tempting of America (1990) | p. 356 |
| "Discovering Fundamental Values," from Democracy and Distrust (1980) | p. 359 |
| "Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning" | p. 374 |
| Justice | p. 389 |
| The Machinery of Justice: Three Sample Procedural Problems | p. 394 |
| "Torture and Plea Bargaining" | p. 394 |
| "Jury Nullification," from Conflicts of Law and Morality (1987) | p. 404 |
| "The Serpent Beguiled Me and I Did Eat: Entrapment and the Creation of Crime" | p. 409 |
| Justice and Compensation | p. 419 |
| "Mischief and Misfortune" | p. 419 |
| "Loss, Agency and Responsibility for Outcomes: Three Conceptions of Corrective Justice" | p. 439 |
| Justice and Contract | p. 453 |
| "Contract Law and Distributive Justice" | p. 453 |
| "Babies for Sale: Reflections on the Baby M Case" | p. 471 |
| "Surrogate Motherhood as Prenatal Adoption" | p. 484 |
| Justice, Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas | p. 492 |
| "Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discrimination" | p. 492 |
| "The Message of Affirmative Action" | p. 499 |
| Article I sec. 31 | p. 513 |
| Inequality and Gender | p. 514 |
| "The Reasonable Woman" | p. 514 |
| State v. Rusk, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1981 | p. 519 |
| Regina v. Morgan, House of Lords, 1976 | p. 523 |
| State v. Kelly, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1984 | p. 525 |
| Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County, United States Supreme Court, 1981 | p. 530 |
| "Sexuality, Authenticity, and Modernity" | p. 538 |
| Responsibility | p. 549 |
| Responsibility for Results | p. 554 |
| "The Impossibility of General Strict Liability" | p. 554 |
| "Causation and Responsibility," from Causation in the Law (1959) | p. 572 |
| "The Decline of Cause" | p. 584 |
| "Blame, Punishment and the Role of Result" | p. 592 |
| Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad Co., New York Court of Appeals, 1928 | p. 598 |
| Summers v. Tice, Supreme Court of California, 1948 | p. 604 |
| Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, Supreme Court of California, 1980 | p. 608 |
| Responsibility for Nonintervention | p. 623 |
| "Notes on the Indian Penal Code," from Works of Lord Macaulay (1866) | p. 623 |
| "The Case for a Duty to Rescue" | p. 625 |
| Some Criminal Defenses | p. 646 |
| People v. Young, New York Court of Appeals, 1962 | p. 646 |
| "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers" | p. 648 |
| "The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace" | p. 663 |
| The M'Naghten Rules, House of Lords (1843) | p. 668 |
| The American Law Institute, The Insanity Defense, from Model Penal Code (1956) | p. 669 |
| State v. Guido, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1963 | p. 672 |
| "What Is So Special About Mental Illness?" from Doing and Deserving (1970) | p. 674 |
| Punishment | p. 683 |
| What Is Legal Punishment? | p. 688 |
| "The Expressive Function of Punishment," from Doing and Deserving (1970) | p. 688 |
| "Shame, Culture and American Criminal Law" | p. 699 |
| What, If Anything, Justifies Legal Punishment? | p. 727 |
| "The Classic Debate" | p. 727 |
| "Fantastic Counterexamples and the Utilitarian Theory," from Crime, Guilt and Punishment (1987) | p. 732 |
| "The Moral Worth of Retribution" | p. 746 |
| "The Failure of Retributivism" | p. 769 |
| Victims' Rights: Restitution or Vengeance? | p. 780 |
| "Retributivism: A Test Case for Ethical Objectivity" | p. 780 |
| "Getting Even: The Role of the Victim" | p. 788 |
| Payne v. Tennessee, United States Supreme Court, 1990 | p. 799 |
| The Death Penalty | p. 817 |
| Furman v. Georgia, United States Supreme Court, 1972 | p. 817 |
| Woodson v. North Carolina, United States Supreme Court, 1976 | p. 826 |
| "In Defense of the Death Penalty: A Practical and Moral Analysis" | p. 836 |
| "Should We Execute Those Who Deserve to Die?" from An Eye for an Eye: The Morality of Punishing by Death (1987) | p. 842 |
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