《JUSTIFYING JUDGMENT PRACTICING LAW AND PHILOSOPHY》

Introduction1

1.Sources of Law7

Legal Philosophy8

Shortcomings of Legal Philosophy26

2.The Duty to Obey Law30

Political Philosophy36

The Doctrine of Political Responsibility47

3.Metatheory61

Justice as an End of Political Responsibility62

Analyzing Metatheory67

Substantive Principles and the Question of Objectivity82

4.Virtual Law90

Skepticism: External and Internal91

Theoretical Reason99

Practical Reason107

5.Real Law110

Two Understandings of Truth110

From the Internal Point of View to Political Morality115

From Political Morality to Law126

6.Diffcult Cases138

Privacy, Sodomy, and Society’s Political Morality140

Slavery and Natural Law147

Abortion and the Internal Point of View152

Lochner and the Court’s Failure to Do Justice162

Plessy, Brown, and the Social Construction of the “Natural”171

7.Legal Education179

A Brief Word About Terminology181

Traditionalism183

Legal Constructivism193

Threshing, Not Trashing207

Conclusion220

Notes233

Selected Bibliography279

Index293