A personalist jurisprudence, the next step : a person-centered philosophy of law for the twenty-first century / Samuel J.M. Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Samuel J. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jurisprudence--United States.

Jurisprudence.

United States.

Law--United States--Philosophy.

Law.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 320 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, [2003]

Contents:

1. A Person Centered Jurisprudence 3

2. The Personalist Judge 5

3. Intellectual Method 10

4. The Uses of Rights 13

5. The Personalist Agenda 14

6. An Interpretation of Law 16

7. Central Ideas and Themes 18

a. Rights 18

b. The Common Good 19

d. Legitimacy 21

e. Interpretation 23

Chapter II The Common Law Tradition 25

2. The Great Quarrel over Method 28

3. Critique and Reconstruction of Method 34

4. The Common Law 41

5. Legislation 50

6. A Central Role for Dispute Settlement 60

7. Legitimacy 65

a. The Meaning of Legitimacy 65

b. The Legitimacy of Personalist Method 68

Chapter III Personalist Theory 71

2. Action 74

3. The Quarrel over Method: A Role for the Person 78

4. Horizons 83

5. Principles 87

6. Insight 91

7. Critique of Method 94

8. The Common Good 99

9. Horizons and Conversation in a Pluralist Society 103

10. Rights 107

Chapter IV Constitutional Interpretation 115

2. Interpreting a Written Document 120

4. A Deliberating Society 123

5. Rights Theory and Constitutional Interpretation 130

6. Conversing with Tradition: Legal Classicism 137

7. Deciding Brown 144

8. The Great Quarrel over Method 153

a. Conservative Theories 153

b. Some Liberal Theories 161

c. Other Liberal Theories 165

9. Principles, Pluralism and Conversation 169

10. Unenumerated Rights

Substantive Due Process 171

11. Interpreting the Eighth Amendment 188

Chapter V Justification, Legitimacy and Moral Judgment 197

2. Justification 199

3. Human Rights 210

4. The Common Good 221

6. Moral Judgment 233

7. Legitimacy 239

8. Authority, Legitimacy and the Use of Force 244

Chapter VI The Language and Uses of Rights: Relating the Multiple Players in the Game of Law across Horizons 247

2. Interpretation 249

3. Contrasting Visions 251

4. The Language and Uses of Rights 254

a. Rights as Remedies, the Predictive View of Law 254

b. Rights as Conclusions in a Legal System 255

c. Rights as Reasons; Rights as Trumps 255

d. Rights as Goals; Rights as Means 257

e. Rights as Resources 258

f. Anti-Rights Rhetoric and the Use of Rights 259

g. Analyzing Horizons and Points of View: Understanding the Various Uses of Rights 260

5. Obligation 263

6. The Task of the Law Reform Litigator 267

7. Conversation: Communication across Horizons 270

Chapter VII The Personalist Agenda 273

2. Conversation; Continued Development of Theory 276

b. Method; Construction and Reconstruction 277

c. The Personalist Interpretation of American Law: A Perennial Philosophy of Law 278

d. The Personalist Scholar 279

3. The Role of the Practicing Attorney 280

4. Law Reform 283

5. Social Science and Law 289

6. Personalist Theory and Reform of Particular Legal Fields 293

7. Rethinking Criminal Justice 294.

ISBN:

0890891567

OCLC:

52254587