Examines responsibility and luck as these issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice.

This book explores the philosophical arguments about the nature of forgiveness, mercy and specific passions in the legal process.

This book represents a major new statement on the issue of property rights.

This book is a defence of a contemporary natural law theory of practical rationality, demonstrating its inherent plausibility and engaging systematically with rival egoist, consequentialist, Kantian and virtue accounts.

This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea which is implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while judges may be morally required to punish ...

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility.

This is a lucid and sophisticated account of the complex notion of justification, revolving around a critical discussion of recent trends in the law of self-defence.

By displaying an impressive command of the feminist literature as well as intellectual rigor, this work promises to be a milestone in the debate about gender equality and will interest students and professionals in the areas of legal theory ...

A sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right.

This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability.