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William A. EdmundsonRegents Professor of Law and Professor of PhilosophyPublicationsBooksWilliam A. Edmundson, An Introduction to Rights (2d ed., Cambridge University Press 2012). William A. Edmundson, An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge University Press 2004) (Portuguese trans., Uma Introdução aos Direitos (E. Ferriera E Silva & N. Eichemburg, trans., Martins Fontes, 2006). | Call No. JC571 .E42 2004 William A. Edmundson, Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority (Cambridge University Press 1998, paperback ed. 2007). | Call No. JC497 .E35 1998 Book Chapters / Collected WorksWilliam A. Edmundson, A Right to Do Wrong? Two Conceptions of Moral Rights, in Rights: Concepts and Contexts (Brian H. Bix & Horacio Spector eds., Ashgate, 2012). William A. Edmundson, Coercion, in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (2012). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Pluralism, Instransitivity, Incoherence, in Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Mark White ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Adding Reasons Up, in Economics and the Mind (Barbara Montero and Mark D. White eds., Routledge, 2007). | Call No. HB72 .E2725 2007 | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Introduction, in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (William Edmundson & Martin P. Golding eds., Blackwell, 2005). | Call No. K235 .B58 2005 William A. Edmundson, Privacy, in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (William Edmundson & Martin P. Golding eds., Blackwell, 2005). | Call No. K235 .B58 2005 | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Introduction, in The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (William A. Edmundson ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999). | Call No. K256 .D88 1999 Works EditedThe Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, (William A. Edmundson & Martin P. Golding eds., Blackwell, 2005). | Call No. K235 .B58 2005 The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings, (William A. Edmundson ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). | Call No. K256 .D88 1999 Articles and Other Contributions to Law Reviews and Scholarly JournalsWilliam A. Edmundson, Politics in a State of Nature, 26 Ratio Juris 149 (2013). William A. Edmundson, Consent & Its Cousins, 121 Ethics 335 (2011). William A. Edmundson, Shmegality, 2 Jurisprudence 273 (2011). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Political Authority, Moral Powers and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience, 30 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 179 (2010). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Review, Arthur Ripstein, Force & Freedom: Kant's Legal & Political Philosophy, 120 Ethics 869 (2010). William A. Edmundson, Review, Christopher Wellman & A. John Simmons, The Duty to Obey the Law: For or Against?, 28 Law & Phil. 101 (2009). | LexisNexis | Westlaw William A. Edmundson, Schauer on Precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 403 (2007). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw | SSRN William A. Edmundson, The Virtue of Law-Abidance, Philosophers Imprint, Dec. 2006, at 1. | www William A. Edmundson, Comments on Richard Arneson's “Joel Feinberg and the Justification of Hard Paternalism”, 11 Legal Theory 285 (2005). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, First Force, J. Ethics & Soc. Phil., Nov. 2005, at 1. | Westlaw | www William Edmundson, State of the Art: The Duty to Obey the Law, 10 Legal Theory 215 (2004) , reprinted in Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence (Michael Freeman, ed., Sweet & Maxwell 2009). | SSRN William Edmundson, Locke and Load, 22 Law & Phil. 195 (2003) (review of A. John Simmons, Justification and Legitimacy). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Review of A. John Simmons, Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations , 22 Law & Phil. 195 (2003). William Edmundson, Afterword: Proportionality and the Difference Death Makes, 21 Crim. Just. Ethics 40 (2002). | www | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Civility as Political Constraint, 8 Res Publica 217 (2002). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Contextualist Answers to Skepticism, and What a Lawyer Cannot Know, 30 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1 (2002-2003). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Social Meaning, Compliance Conditions, and Law’s Claim to Authority, 15 Can. J. L. & Jurisprudence 51 (2002). | Hein | Westlaw | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Review, Objectivity in Law and Morals (Brian Leiter, ed. 2001), 23 Philosophical Inquiry 123 (2002). William A. Edmundson, Review, Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (1998), 111 Ethics 644 (2001). William A. Edmundson, Introduction: Some Recent Work on Political Obligation, APA Newsl. on Phil. & L., Fall 1999, at 62. William A. Edmundson, Philosophy in Review, 19 Comptes Rendus Philosophiques 327 (1999) (reviewing Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (Antony Duff, ed. 1998)). William Edmundson, Abstract, John Rawl’s the Idea of Public Reason, APA Newsl. on L. & Phil., Spring 1998, at 108. William A. Edmundson, Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation, 17 Law & Phil. 43 (1998). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Philosophy in Review, 18 Comptes Rendus Philosophiques 182 (1998) (reviewing Jaap C. Hage, Reasoning with Rules: An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic (1997)). William A. Edmundson, Review, Fred D'Agostino, Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go (1996), 107 Ethics 556 (1997). William A. Edmundson, The Antinomy of Coherence and Determinacy, 82 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (1996). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Is Law Coercive?, 1 Legal Theory 81 (1995). | SSRN William A. Edmundson, Review, Kevin Ashley, Modeling Legal Argument (1990), 7 Phil. Psychol. 135 (1994). William A. Edmundson, Review, Stephen Guest, Ronald Dworkin (1991), 104 Ethics 394 (1994). William A. Edmundson, Love & Power: The Role of Religion & Morality in American Politics, 103 Ethics 627 (1993). William A. Edmundson, Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons: A Second Edition of Joseph Raz’s Practical Reason and Norms, 12 Law & Phil. 329 (1993). William A. Edmundson, Transparency and Indeterminacy in the Liberal Critique of Critical Legal Studies, 24 Seton Hall L. Rev. 557 (1993). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw William A. Edmundson, Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, 102 Ethics 887 (1992). William A. Edmundson, Book Review, Law, Culture, & Values: Essays in Honor of Gray L. Dorsey, 102 Ethics 193 (1991). William A. Edmundson, Are Law and Morality Distinct?, 4 BYU J. Pub. L. 33 (1990). | Hein William A. Edmundson, Lawyers’ Justice, 88 Mich. L. Rev. 1833 (1990) (reviewing David Luban, Lawyers and Justice (1988) & Philip Heymann & Lance Liebman, the Social Responsibilities of Lawyers (1988)). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw William A. Edmundson, Liberalism, Legal Decisionmaking, and Morality "As Such", 10 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 505 (1990). | Hein William A. Edmundson, The ‘Race-Of-The-Victim’ Effect in Capital Sentencing: McClesky v. Kemp and Underadjustment Bias, 31 Jurimetrics J. 125 (1990). William A. Edmundson, Note, Discovery of Federal Income Tax Returns and the New “Qualified” Privileges, 1984 Duke L.J. 938 (1984) reprinted in 16 Monthly Dig. Tax Articles 16 (1985).. | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw William A. Edmundson, Review, Raoul Berger, Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course (1982), 1984 Duke L.J. 624 (1984). | Hein | LexisNexis | Westlaw Articles and Other Contributions to Non-Academic PublicationsWilliam A. Edmundson, Letter to the Editor, William Godwin, Times Literary Suppl., Jan. 13, 2006, at 15. William A. Edmundson, Letter to the Editor, "She", Times Literary Suppl., Aug. 22, 2003, at 13. William A. Edmundson, Speeding: A Sprawling Offense?, Fulton County Daily Rep., October 25, 2002, at 7. William A. Edmundson, Letter to the Editors, Clinton & the Jones Case, N.Y. Rev. Books, April 23, 1998, at 65. William A. Edmundson, Letter to Word Court, Atlantic Monthly, January 1996, at 116. William A. Edmundson, Letter to the Editor, British Privacy Debate Swayed U.S. Decisions, N.Y. Times, Sept. 3, 1992, at A14. Electronic PublicationsW.A. Edmundson, Perry on Powers, Jotwell (Dec. 10, 2012), available at http://juris.jotwell.com/ William A. Edmundson, On GA Cohen, 'Political Philosophy and Personal Behavior', Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (May 21, 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, Politics in a State of Nature, Social Science Research Network (2011), available at http://ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, "When is Using a Firearm Not Really?" - An Eminent Philosopher Helps Us Decide, Jotwell (Oct. 6, 2010), available at http://juris.jotwell.com/%E2%80%9Cwhen-is-using-a-firearm-not-really%E2%80%9D-an-eminent-philosopher-of-language-helps-us-decide/. | www William A. Edmundson, Morality Without Responsibility, Social Science Research Network (Jun. 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, Posterity & Embodiment, Social Science Research Network (Jun. 1, 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, When Reasons Obligate, Social Science Research Network (Jun. 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, Review, Tom Campbell, Rights: A Critical Introduction, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Dec. 12, 2007), available at http://ndpr.nd.edu/ William A. Edmundson, The Social Enforcement of Morality, Social Sciences Research Network (July 17, 2003), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/ William A. Edmundson, Body and Soul in the Year 2020: Moral and Ethical Considerations in Our Biological Future, Entered in the Greenwall Foundation Oscar M. Ruebhausen Award Competition, (2001), available at http://law.gsu.edu/ William A. Edmundson, Liberating the Future From the Past? Liberating the Past From the Future?, Entered in the International Essay Prize Contest, Sponsored by Lettre International, Berlin, and Weimar 1999, European City of Culture, (1998), available at http://law.gsu.edu/ William A. Edmundson, Comments on Coherence Theory in the Philosophy of Law, Social Science Research Network (May 1994), available at http://ssrn.com/ | 
E-mail: wedmundson  @E R A S Egsu.edu Office: 458 Urban Life Building Phone: 404-413-9167 Fax: 404-413-9225 Directory LinksCourses Taught: Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Seminar in Philosophy of Law, Torts I, Torts II |
