Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law

Narrative, Authority, and Law (Law, Meaning, And Violence)

Literature & Fiction

West, Robin

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence - natural law, legal positivism, and critical legal studies - that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for just such normative scholarship. Over the last fifty years or so, all of these traditions, although for different reasons, have taken a number of different turns - toward empirical analysis, conceptual analysis, or Foucaultian critique - and away from straightforward normative criticism. As a result, normative legal scholarship - scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform - is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought. The book criticizes those developments and suggests a return, albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges, to this traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship.

Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

Legal Theory & Systems

Cambridge University Press

Over the past decade, mainstream feminist theory has repeatedly and urgently cautioned against arguments which assert the existence of fundamental—or essential—differences between men and women. Any biological or natural differences between the sexes are often flatly denied, on the grounds that such an acknowledgment will impede women's claims to equal treatment. In Caring for Justice, Robin West turns her sensitive, measured eye to the consequences of this widespread refusal to consider how women's lived experiences and perspectives may differ from those of men. Her work calls attention to two critical areas in which an inadequate recognition of women's distinctive experiences has failed jurisprudence. We are in desperate need, she contends, both of a theory of justice which incorporates women's distinctive moral voice on the meaning of justice into our discourse, and of a theory of harm which better acknowledges, compensates, and seeks to prevent the various harms which women, disproportionately and distinctively, suffer. Providing a fresh feminist perspective on traditional jurisprudence, West examines such issues as the nature of justice, the concept of harm, economic theories of value, and the utility of constitutional discourse. She illuminates the adverse repercussions of the anti-essentialist position for jurisprudence, and offers strategies for correcting them. Far from espousing a return to essentialism, West argues an anti- anti-essentialism, which greatly refines our understanding of the similarities and differences between women and men.

Caring for Justice

NYU Press

Over the past decade, mainstream feminist theory has repeatedly and urgently cautioned against arguments which assert the existence of fundamental—or essential—differences between men and women. Any biological or natural differences between the sexes are often flatly denied, on the grounds that such an acknowledgment will impede women's claims to equal treatment. In Caring for Justice, Robin West turns her sensitive, measured eye to the consequences of this widespread refusal to consider how women's lived experiences and perspectives may differ from those of men. Her work calls attention to two critical areas in which an inadequate recognition of women's distinctive experiences has failed jurisprudence. We are in desperate need, she contends, both of a theory of justice which incorporates women's distinctive moral voice on the meaning of justice into our discourse, and of a theory of harm which better acknowledges, compensates, and seeks to prevent the various harms which women, disproportionately and distinctively, suffer. Providing a fresh feminist perspective on traditional jurisprudence, West examines such issues as the nature of justice, the concept of harm, economic theories of value, and the utility of constitutional discourse. She illuminates the adverse repercussions of the anti-essentialist position for jurisprudence, and offers strategies for correcting them. Far from espousing a return to essentialism, West argues an anti- anti-essentialism, which greatly refines our understanding of the similarities and differences between women and men.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Instructions for building a model circus complete with ringmaster, using construction paper and articles found around most homes.

Paper Circus How to Create Your Own Circus

Children's Books

CarolRhoda Books

Far Out: How to Create Your Own Star World

Instructions for using household materials to make such star world items as an astro shuttle, a meteor man, and a lunar colony computer

Instructions for drawing, cutting, and gluing paper shapes together to form three-dimensional dinosaurs

Dinosaur Discoveries: How to Create Your Own Prehistoric World

Wolfe, Diane

Wolfe, Bob

Rabin, Mindy

My Very Own Christmas: A Book of Cooking and Crafts (My Very Own Holiday Books)

Christmas recipes and crafts and information about the holiday.

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Narrative, Authority, and Law (Law, Meaning, And Violence)

Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

Caring for Justice

Caring for Justice

Paper Circus How to Create Your Own Circus

Far Out: How to Create Your Own Star World

Dinosaur Discoveries: How to Create Your Own Prehistoric World

Far Out: How to Create Your Own Star World

My Very Own Christmas: A Book of Cooking and Crafts (My Very Own Holiday Books)