WILLIAM A. EDMUNDSON's

Publications and Works-in-Progress List

Books

An Introduction to Rights
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Portuguese ed. 2006)

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
co-edited with  Martin P. Golding (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) 

The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) 

Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback ed. 2007)

Articles and Essays

Consent and Its Counterfeits

(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN's Working Paper Series)

 

Schauer on Precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court
(forthcoming in the Georgia State Law Review; downloadable draft from SSRN Accepted Papers Series)    

 

Pluralism, Intransitivity, Incoherence

(forthcoming in Mark White, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics, Cambridge 2009; abstract and downloadable draft from SSRN Accepted Papers Series)

 

Morality without Responsibility
(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN's Working Paper Series)    

 

Adding Reasons Up

In Barbara Montero and Mark White, eds., Economics and Mind (Routledge 2007)

The Virtue of Law-Abidance
Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 6, no. 4 (December 2006)

Comments on Richard Arneson’s “Joel Feinberg and the Justification of Hard Paternalism

Legal Theory 11:286-91 (2005)(abstract available in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

When Reasons Obligate
(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN’s Working Papers Series) 

Posterity and Embodiment
(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN’s Working Paper Series)  

Privacy
(in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory)(abstract and downloadable draft available through SSRN)

"First Force"
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy www.jesp.org, 2005, vol. 1, no. 3

State of the Art: The Duty to Obey the Law
Legal Theory 10:215-59 (2004) (abstract available in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

Locke and Load
Law and Philosophy 22:195-216 (2003) (abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

Proportionality and the Difference Death Makes
Criminal Justice Ethics
21:40-43 (2002) (abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

Contextualist Answers to Skepticism, and What a Lawyer Cannot Know  
Florida State University Law Review
30:1-23 (2002), with comment by Rob Atkinson.  (abstract in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series and downloadable draft from FSU Law Review)

Body and Soul in the Year 2020: Moral and Ethical Considerations in our Biological Future
(entered in the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Award competition, sponsored by the Greenwall Foundation)

Social Meaning, Compliance Conditions, and Law's Claim to Authority
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
15:51-67 (2002)(abstract available in SSRN’s Accepted papers Series)

The Social Enforcement of Morality
(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN's Working Paper Series)

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)

Civility as Political Constraint
Res Publica
8:217-29 (2002)(abstract in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

Introduction: Some Recent Work on Political Obligation
APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law
99:62-67 (Fall 1999)    

Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation
Law and Philosophy
17:43-60 (1998) (abstract in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

The Antinomy of Coherence and Determinacy
Iowa Law Review
82:1-20 (1996) (abstract in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series; also abstracted in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law (Fall, 1998))

Is Law Coercive?
Legal Theory
1:81-111 (1995) (abstract in SSRN’s Accepted Papers Series)

Coherence Theory in the Philosophy of Law
(abstract and downloadable draft in SSRN’s Working Papers Series)

Transparency and Indeterminacy in the Liberal Critique of Critical Legal Studies
Seton Hall Law Review
24:556-602 (1993) abstracted in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law (Spring, 1996)

Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons: A Second Edition of Joseph Raz's Practical Reason and Norms
Law and Philosophy
12:329-43 (1993)

Liberalism, Legal Decisionmaking and Morality "As Such"
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
10:505-21 (1990)

The "Race-of-the-Victim" Effect in Capital Sentencing: McClesky v. Kemp and Underadjustment Bias
Jurimetrics Journal
32:125-41 (1990)

Are Law and Morality Distinct?
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
4:33-53 (1990)

Lawyers' Justice
Michigan Law Review
88:1833-57 (1990) (reviewing David Luban, Lawyers and Justiceand Philip Heymann & Lance Liebman, The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers

Moral Relativism and the Basis of Obligation
Doctoral Dissertation (University Microfilms, 1982) 

Book Reviews and Other Minor Publications

Review of Tom Campbell, Rights: A Critical Introduction (2006)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8225

William Godwin
Letter to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement, January 13, 2006, at 15

She
Letter to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement, August 22, 2003, at 13

Speeding: A Sprawling Offense?
Fulton County Daily Report,
October 25, 2002  

Review of Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Repsonsibility, and the Law (1998)
Ethics
111:644-48 (2001)

Review of Antony Duff, ed., Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (1998)
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques
19:327-29 (1999)

Clinton & the Jones Case
Letter to the Editors, The New York Review of Books, April 23, 1998, at 65, with response by Irangate Special Counsel Lawrence Walsh    

Abstract of John Rawls,"The Idea of Public Reason," (64 U. Chi. L. Rev. 765 (1997))
APA Newsletter on Law and Philosophy
97:108 (Spring 1998)    

Review of Jaap C. Hage, Reasoning with Rules: An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic (1997)
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques 18:182-83 (1998)    

Letter to Word Court
The Atlantic Monthly
, January, 1996, at 116  

Review of Kevin Ashley, Modeling Legal Argument (1990)
Philosophical Psychology
7:135-37 (1994)    

Review of Stephen Guest, Ronald Dworkin (1991)
Ethics
104:394-96 (1994)    

British Privacy Debate Swayed U.S. Decisions
Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, Sept. 3, 1992, at A14, col. 4   

Review of Raoul Berger, Death Penalties (1982)
Duke Law Journal
1984:624-29    

Discovery of Federal Income Tax Returns and the New "Qualified" Privileges
Duke Law Journal
1984:938-62, reprinted in Monthly Digest of Tax Articles 16:16-26 (1985)    

Book Notes
Ethics
107:556-57 (1997); Ethics 103:627 (1993); Ethics 102:887 (1992); Ethics 102:193-94 (1991)

 

Last Updated:  June 10, 2008