作者简介： 理查德·瓦瑟斯特罗姆（1936- ），曾任塔斯克基大学艺术与科学学院院长，以及加州大学洛杉矶分校的法学教授，现为加州大学圣克鲁兹分校哲学系荣休教授。他在种族歧视以及当代其它许多道德问题上著述甚多，代表性的有《战争与道德性》（War and Morality，沃兹沃思出版社1970年版）、《哲学与社会问题五论》（Philosophy and Social Issues: Five Studies，圣母大学出版社1980年版）以及《今日之道德难题》（Today's Moral Problems，麦克米伦出版社1985年版）等等。 译者简介： 孙海波，法学博士，中国政法大学比较法学研究院讲师。

What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of interest to legal theorists and philosophers of law. They are pressing issues for practising lawyers, and a matte...(展开全部)

What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of interest to legal theorists and philosophers of law. They are pressing issues for practising lawyers, and a matte...(展开全部)

Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State. The result is a critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.

凯瑟琳·麦金农Catharine A. MacKinnon：女，法学教授，哈佛大学法学院詹姆斯·巴尔艾姆斯客座教授，主要致力于研究国际和宪法框架下的男女平等问题的。她开创了对于性骚扰行为的法律追责理论，并与德沃金一道创立了淫秽作品作为对民事权利侵犯的法令，2000年8月，在Kadic v Karadzic一案中，她和一名前南刑庭助理律师一起帮助塞尔维亚种族暴行中遭受性暴力的妇女获得了7.45亿元的赔偿，这起案件首次将强奸作为一种种族灭绝罪行。

Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State. The result is a critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.

Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists working in one tradition may have difficulty understanding the concepts and terminolo...(展开全部)

What does it mean to assert or deny the existence of a legal system? How can one determine whether a given law belongs to a certain legal system? What kind of structure do these systems have, that is--what necessary relations obtain between their laws? The examination of these problems in this volume leads to a new approach to traditional jurisprudential question, though the co...(展开全部)

This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life?

This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life?