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Neoliberalism Versus Distributional Autonomy: The Skipped Step in Rawls's
The Law of Peoples
(William A. Edmundson and Matthew R. Schrepfer)
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
(2019)
Debates about global distributive justice focus on the gulf between the wealthy North and the impoverished South, rather than on issues arising between liberal democracies. A review of John Rawls’s approach to international justice discloses ...
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It Can't Happen Here, Has It?
(W. A. Edmundson)
Jotwell
(2018)
Distributive Justice and Distributed Obligations
(William A. Edmundson)
Journal of Moral Philosophy
(2018)
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Political Political Theory Theory
(Jeremy D. Farris and William A. Edmundson)
Constitutional Commentary
(2017)
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The Zeal of Our Age
(William A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2017)
Coercion, Stability, and Indoctrination in the Pejorative Sense
(William A. Edmundson)
Jurisprudence
(2016)
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Charlie Hebdo Meets Utility Monster
(William A. Edmundson)
The Critique
(2016)
The Charlie Hebdo massacre in January 2015 and the subsequent attacks of November 13 cast a garish light onto a conundrum at the center of how liberal democracies understand themselves. The Syrian emigrant crisis has ...
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Long Shadows and Clubbable Democracies
(W. A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2015)
Do Animals Need Rights?
(William A. Edmundson)
Journal of Political Philosophy
(2015)
The idea of animal rights makes many people skittish. Even many advocates of better treatment of animals sense that the language of rights is misplaced and unhelpful in the forum of debate about the ethical ...
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Roll Over, De Tocqueville
(William A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2015)
Book Review,
The Philosophy of Customary Law
(William A. Edmundson)
Law & Philosophy
(2015)
Do Animals Need Citizenship?
(William A. Edmundson)
International Journal of Constitutional Law
(2015)
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Do Animals Need Citizenship?
(W. A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2014)
Law's Evolution and Law as Custom
(William A. Edmundson)
San Diego Law Review
(2014)
Legal discourse centrally involves a family of normative expressions - "obligation," "right," "permission," and so on - whose surface grammar parallels that of moral discourse. Is the normativity of legal discourse then a moral normativity? ...
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Book Review, Just Property: A History in the Latin West, Volume One: Wealth, Virtue, and the Law
(William A. Edmundson)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
(2014)
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Animals, Rights, and Legal "Bifurcation" in Kant
(W. A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2014)
Politics in a State of Nature
(William A. Edmundson)
Ratio Juris
(2013)
Aristotle thought we are by nature political animals, but the state‐of‐nature tradition sees political society not as natural but as an artifice. For this tradition, political society can usefully be conceived as emerging from a ...
Why Legal Theory is Political Philosophy
(William A. Edmundson)
Legal Theory
(2013)
This article is part of a symposium issue on Scott Shapiro's book, Legality. It explores the question whether Shapiro's "moral aim" functionalism about the nature of law brings him into conflict with his own commitment ...
Perry on Powers
(William A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2012)
Book Review,
Justice for Hedgehogs
(William A. Edmundson)
Law and Philosophy
(2012)
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Law in the Neighborhood of Morality and Convention
(W. A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2012)
Consent & Its Cousins
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(2011)
Consent theories of political obligation draw upon the unique powers consent exhibits in everyday dealings, but they are frustrated by the "problem of massive nonconsent." Expansions of what is counted as consent, such as tacit ...
Shmegality
(William A. Edmundson)
Jurisprudence
(2011)
This is a review essay on Scott J. Shapiro's Legality, published in 2011 by Harvard U.P.
"When is Using a Firearm Not Really?" - An Eminent Philosopher Helps Us Decide
(William A. Edmundson)
Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
(2010)
Book Review,
Force & Freedom: Kant's Legal & Political Philosophy
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(2010)
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