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Behind Locke And Key: A Philosophical Reorientation Of Privacy As Property In Oneself And Its Applications To Personal Consumer Data, Tara Mehra
CMC Senior Theses
The U.S. law has a weak conception of the right to privacy– one that fails to adequately protect consumers in the technological age. This project draws primarily upon Locke, Kant, and Ripstein to articulate and apply a reorientation of the right to privacy and defend that reorientation as constitutionally sound. Specifically, Locke’s property theory and Kant’s innate right suggest that the right to privacy is derived from an exclusive right to control one’s person, which is one’s most fundamental property. In applying this understanding of privacy, there is a case for a robust protection of consumer data. Further, Ripstein’s analysis …
Righting Health Policy: Bioethics, Political Philosophy, And The Normative Justification Of Health Law And Policy, D. Robert Macdougall
Righting Health Policy: Bioethics, Political Philosophy, And The Normative Justification Of Health Law And Policy, D. Robert Macdougall
Publications and Research
In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others. It consequently requires political, rather than moral, philosophy. After showing how bioethicists have consistently failed to use tools suitable for achieving their political aims, MacDougall develops an interpretation of Kant’s political philosophy. On this account the legitimacy of health laws does …
Metaphysics & Morals In Canadian Criminal Justice: A Pragmatic Analysis Of The Conflict Between Neuroscience And Retributive Folk Psychology, Sarah Greenwood
Metaphysics & Morals In Canadian Criminal Justice: A Pragmatic Analysis Of The Conflict Between Neuroscience And Retributive Folk Psychology, Sarah Greenwood
LLM Theses
The retributive justification of Canadian criminal law contains several assumptions about human nature that conflicts with what neuroscience has established regarding human behavior and the function of rationality. Interdisciplinary discourse on this conflict between law and neuroscience has unnecessarily implicated the free will debate and is further stagnated by epistemic cultural differences between the two disciplines. To avoid these roadblocks, this thesis applies the methodological principles of pragmatic philosophy. Rather than asking which description of human nature is true, pragmatic inquiry focuses on the difference either would make in practice. This analysis reveals that retributive folk psychology in practice causes …
Book (Oup) Introduction And Overview: A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, And The European Convention On Human Rights, Alec Stone Sweet
Book (Oup) Introduction And Overview: A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, And The European Convention On Human Rights, Alec Stone Sweet
Alec Stone Sweet
No abstract provided.
Public Requitals: Corrective, Retributive, And Distributive Justice, Bailey Kuklin
Public Requitals: Corrective, Retributive, And Distributive Justice, Bailey Kuklin
Cleveland State Law Review
The currently predominant view of public requitals for criminal behavior draws on the deontic guidance provided rather sketchily by Kant’s writings. He offers a broad, formal framework for the mandate to respect others and punish those who criminally violate the mandate. As ethical beings, people have the duty to avoid invading the "autonomy space" of others that is delineated by maxims designed to reasonably and fairly balance everyone’s equal liberty and security interests. Once society settles on a complete and coherent set of maxims that determines the reach of one’s autonomy space, it must then turn to maxims that address …
The Right To Education: An Analysis Through The Lens Of The Deontological Method Of Immanuel Kant, Kavana Ramaswamy
The Right To Education: An Analysis Through The Lens Of The Deontological Method Of Immanuel Kant, Kavana Ramaswamy
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
The framework of categorical imperatives is one of the most famous deontological theories of rights that have been formulated. The framework has often been used to justify human rights policies all over the world. While they have been subject to several criticisms over the last two centuries, some of these include improvements to the original framework. This paper analyses the framework of the categorical imperatives and suggest certain modifications to improve internal coherence.
The paper then seeks to apply this framework to the right to education, a right that is under fire in the conservatively-charged political arena today. This is …
The Influence Of Juridical Cant On Edificatory Approaches In 21st-Century America, David Pozen
The Influence Of Juridical Cant On Edificatory Approaches In 21st-Century America, David Pozen
Faculty Scholarship
This essay reframes the debate over the "growing disjunction" between legal scholarship and legal practice. Law review articles continue to make the world a better place, the essay stipulates. But are judicial opinions becoming less useful to students and scholars? A rigorous analysis and concrete prescriptions follow.
The Problem Of Sovereignty, International Law, And Intellectual Conscience, Richard L. Lara
The Problem Of Sovereignty, International Law, And Intellectual Conscience, Richard L. Lara
Richard Louis Lara
The concept of sovereignty is a recurring and controversial theme in international law, and it has a long history in western philosophy. The traditionally favored concept of sovereignty proves problematic in the context of international law. International law’s own claims to sovereignty, which are premised on traditional concept of sovereignty, undermine individual nations’ claims to sovereignty. These problems are attributable to deep-seated flaws in the traditional concept of sovereignty. A viable alternative concept of sovereignty can be derived from key concepts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s views on human reason and epistemology. The essay begins by considering the problem of sovereignty from …
Private Ownership And The Standing To Say So, Avihay Dorfman
Private Ownership And The Standing To Say So, Avihay Dorfman
Avihay Dorfman
Property theory is an ongoing discourse attempting to articulate a compelling answer (or answers) to the following question: what is the single most significant or otherwise interesting thing about the concept of private ownership? In this article, I seek to advance three general claims in response to this question. First, I criticize certain leading attempts to answer this question. Second, the centerpiece of my article defends the claim that an adequate theory of the concept of private ownership must begin with the special standing that an owner possesses, which is to say the standing to demand that others will take …
Beccaria's On Crimes And Punishments: A Mirror On The History Of The Foundations Of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
Beccaria's On Crimes And Punishments: A Mirror On The History Of The Foundations Of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
Faculty Scholarship
Beccaria’s treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764) has become a placeholder for the classical school of thought in criminology, for deterrence-based public policy, for death penalty abolitionism, and for liberal ideals of legality and the rule of law. A source of inspiration for Bentham and Blackstone, an object of praise for Voltaire and the Philosophes, a target of pointed critiques by Kant and Hegel, the subject of a genealogy by Foucault, the object of derision by the Physiocrats, rehabilitated and appropriated by the Chicago School of law and economics — these ricochets and reflections on Beccaria’s treatise reveal multiple dimensions …
Effect Precedes Cause: Kant And The Self-In-Itself, David G. Carlson
Effect Precedes Cause: Kant And The Self-In-Itself, David G. Carlson
Articles
This article describes the metaphysics of Kant, according to which we never know the Thing In Itself but only the appearance of it. When applied to selfhood (which is a “thing”), Kant implies that we never know what motivates us to do what we do. Our reasons are after-the-fact apologies to justify our acts. For that reason the “cause” of our deed always (that is to say, our reasons) follows the deed itself. Effect precedes cause, on Kantian metaphysics.
Why Copyright Law Lacks Taste And Scents, Leon R. Calleja
Why Copyright Law Lacks Taste And Scents, Leon R. Calleja
Leon R Calleja
This paper explores the resistance in U.S. copyright law to extend copyright protection to scents and tastes, and advances the position that copyright law’s originality and expression requirements limit copyrightable subject matter to expressions that engage both author and audience in a way that requires reflection upon the work—or at least, the capacity for reflection—in a necessarily intersubjective and communicative fashion, what I call a “public dimension.” That the sensations of taste and smell are inescapably immediate and private suggest that they lack the kind of public dimension that visual and audio works exhibit. Indeed, this creates an ineffability characterized …
Planning Positivism And Planning Natural Law, Martin J. Stone
Planning Positivism And Planning Natural Law, Martin J. Stone
Articles
Scott Shapiro offers an elaboration and defense of “legal positivism,” in which the official acceptance of a plan figures as the central explanatory notion. Rich in both ambition and insight, Legality casts an edifying new light on the structure of positive law and its officialdom. As a defense of positivism, however, it exhibits the odd feature that its main claims will prove quite acceptable to the natural lawyer. Perhaps this betokens – what many have begun to suspect anyway – that our usual tests for classifying legal theories (as positivist or not) are, in the present state of discussion, no …
A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism And Rights Adjudication In Europe, Alec Stone Sweet
A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism And Rights Adjudication In Europe, Alec Stone Sweet
Alec Stone Sweet
No abstract provided.
Legal Positivism As An Idea About Morality, Martin J. Stone
Legal Positivism As An Idea About Morality, Martin J. Stone
Articles
I ask what a proper critical target for 'legal positivism' might be. I argue that utilitarian moral theory, and more generally fully directive moral theories, are unacknowledged motivations for legal positivism. Contemporary debate about 'the nature of law' is, historically speaking, much more of a footnote to utilitarianism than has been recognized.
The Dao Of Privacy, Lara A. Ballard
The Dao Of Privacy, Lara A. Ballard
Lara A Ballard
It is widely believed in some Western circles that a single multilateral human rights treaty, based largely on European models for data protection, can standardize a right to privacy on a global basis. It is also widely believed that East Asia has no real tradition of privacy. Both of these beliefs are mistaken. This Article explores the underlying philosophical assumptions beneath Western concepts of privacy that currently prevail on both sides of the Atlantic, by examining privacy through the lens of classical Daoism and the Northeast Asian philosophical tradition. Taking a cue from Professor Julie Cohen’s Configuring the Networked Self, …
Review Of Arthur Ripstein, Force And Freedom, Andrew Botterell
Review Of Arthur Ripstein, Force And Freedom, Andrew Botterell
Law Publications
No abstract provided.
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Contract And Promise, Ian C. Bartrum
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Contract And Promise, Ian C. Bartrum
Ian C Bartrum
This essay offers some brief thoughts on Seana Shiffrin's recent work regarding the divergence of contractual and promissory norms. I conclude that Shiffrin does not do enough to separate and account for the different consequentalist and deontological justifications underlying each institution, and does not do enough to explain how promises give rise to the "moral" duties she posits. I suggest, instead, that the divergence between contract and promise is justified by the different roles each institution plays in our lives, and that, in fact, keeping strictly promissory duties outside the scope of state coercion actually facilitates a strong culture of …
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Promise And Contract, Ian C. Bartrum
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Promise And Contract, Ian C. Bartrum
Scholarly Works
This essay offers some brief thoughts on Seana Shiffrin‘s recent work regarding the divergence of contractual and promissory norms. The author conclude that Shiffrin does not do enough to separate and account for the different consequentalist and deontological justifications underlying each institution, and does not do enough to explain how promises give rise to the “moral” duties she posits. The author suggest, instead, that the divergence between contract and promise is justified by the different roles each institution plays in our lives, and that, in fact, keeping strictly promissory duties outside the scope of state coercion actually facilitates a strong …
Emotion, Neuroscience, And Law: A Comment On Darwin And Greene, John Mikhail
Emotion, Neuroscience, And Law: A Comment On Darwin And Greene, John Mikhail
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Darwin’s (1871) observation that evolution has produced in us certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct that lack any obvious basis in individual utility is a useful springboard from which to clarify the role of emotion in moral judgment. The problem is whether a certain class of moral judgments is “constituted” or “driven by” emotion (Greene 2008, p. 108) or merely correlated with emotion while being generated by unconscious computations (e.g., Huebner et al. 2008). With one exception, all of the “personal” vignettes devised by Greene and colleagues (2001, 2004) and subsequently used by other researchers (e.g., Koenigs et …
Instrumentalizing Jurors: An Argument Against The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, Todd E. Pettys
Instrumentalizing Jurors: An Argument Against The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, Todd E. Pettys
Fordham Urban Law Journal
In this symposium contribution, I contend that the application of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule in cases tried by juries raises troubling moral issues that are not present when a judge adjudicates a case on his or her own. Specifically, I argue that the exclusionary rule infringes upon jurors’ deliberative autonomy by depriving them of available evidence that rationally bears upon their verdict and by instrumentalizing them in service to the Court’s deterrence objectives. After considering ways in which those moral problems could be at least partially mitigated, I contend that the best approach might be to abandon the exclusionary …
Kant, Habermas And Democratic Peace, John C. Yoo, Robert J. Delahunty
Kant, Habermas And Democratic Peace, John C. Yoo, Robert J. Delahunty
John C Yoo
Philosophers of great stature rarely write about international law or international relations. When they do, their writing, though often illuminating, tends to be brief, episodic and marginal to the rest of their work. Major exceptions include the towering eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant and the contemporary German thinker Jürgen Habermas, much of whose highly influential work is devoted to international affairs. The relationship between Kant and Habermas is an extremely close one, and few later thinkers have done as much as Habermas to demonstrate the continuing importance and relevance of Kant’s political thought for the contemporary world. Briefly stated, our …
Ernest J. Weinrib’S Legal Formalism And The Philosophies Of Aristotle, Kant And Hegel, Dr Burns
Ernest J. Weinrib’S Legal Formalism And The Philosophies Of Aristotle, Kant And Hegel, Dr Burns
Dr Burns
This paper may be seen as a contribution to a symposium on the legal theory of Hegel which was first published in Cardozo Law Review in 1988-89: 10 Cardozo L. Rev. (1988-89). (Hegel and Legal Theory Symposium, I). It presents a critique of the doctrine of ‘legal formalism,’ as this is presented in the writings of Ernest J. Weinrib. Weinrib associates legal formalism with the legal philosophies of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel. So far as Aristotle is concerned, the paper argues that Weinrib is wrong to argue that Aristotle is a forerunner of the legal philosophy of Kant or of …
States Of War: Defensive Force Among Nations (Reviewing George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin, Defending Humanity: When Force Is Justified And Why (2008)), Guyora Binder
Book Reviews
In "Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why," George Fletcher and Jens Ohlin analogize international defensive force to individual self-defense. Based on this analogy, Fletcher and Ohlin justify a presumptive right on the part of every state to intervene against aggression, and a right of humanitarian intervention in support of national groups but not populations. They oppose reprisals, preemptive defense, and resistance to invading armies by irregular troops. This review essay argues that the relative weakness of the Security Council, the unequal power of states, and the contingency of international recognition on effective force all undermine the analogy between …
Paging King Solomon: Towards Allowing Organ Donation From Anencephalic Infants, Fazal Khan
Paging King Solomon: Towards Allowing Organ Donation From Anencephalic Infants, Fazal Khan
Fazal Khan
The article, Paging King Solomon: Towards Allowing Organ Donation from Anencephalic Infants, argues that organ donation from anencephalic infants is ethically and legally justifiable. Anencephaly is a medical condition characterized by a lack of brain development above the brainstem, so such children often lack a cerebrum, cerebellum and a skull. With an intact brainstem, these children can maintain heart and lung function. Without higher brain functioning though, these children are not capable of human consciousness and they typically have very short life spans measured in days or weeks. The way in which an anencephalic infant dies typically destroys the suitability …
Restorative Justice: Sketching A New Legal Discourse, Frank D. Hill
Restorative Justice: Sketching A New Legal Discourse, Frank D. Hill
Frank D Hill
Restorative justice has emerged as an increasingly accepted approach to criminal law around the world over the last 30 years or so. Unlike the traditional theories of justice – Kantian justice and utilitarian efficiency – restorative justice focuses on the private rather than the public effects of crime. Restorativists emphasize the needs of primary stakeholders, namely victims and offenders, over the needs of society at large when considering how the criminal justice system should respond to crime. This Article argues this difference in focus is reflected in the various theories’ conceptions of human nature and subjectivity. While the traditional theories …
Re-Torts, Ronen Perry
Re-Torts, Ronen Perry
Ronen Perry
Tom Broadbent, George Bernard Shaw’s memorable hero in John Bull’s Other Island, forcefully avers in Act IV that “there are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.” Broadbent is an Englishman, but his commitment to the gospel of efficiency has made him representative of modern America in the eyes of many commentators. Peter Keegan, Broadbent’s ideological adversary, mocks his simple-mindedness, and concludes his ironic reproach with an inspiring prediction: “For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not …
Human Dignity Under The Fourth Amendment, John D. Castiglione
Human Dignity Under The Fourth Amendment, John D. Castiglione
John D. Castiglione
Fourth Amendment "reasonableness" jurisprudence as currently constituted is incapable of providing consistent decisions reflective of the underlying philosophical and moral structure of the Constitution. Increasingly, courts have allowed reasonableness analysis to devolve into little more than an awkward balancing exercise between the needs of law enforcement and the interests of "privacy." Upon initial consideration, this seems appropriate; the Fourth Amendment has been long been understood as a bulwark against unreasonable privacy invasions in the course of law enforcement. This understanding is, however, incomplete. As courts have moved towards an almost exclusive focus on privacy as the counter-balance to the government's …
Law As Rationalization: Getting Beyond Reason To Business Ethics, Jeffrey Marc Lipshaw
Law As Rationalization: Getting Beyond Reason To Business Ethics, Jeffrey Marc Lipshaw
ExpressO
Embedded in the way we use the law is the tendency of human reason to justification, in the words of one philosopher, “the thirst for rationality that creates lies.” I contend that this tendency is exacerbated by the conflation of what is knowable as a matter of science, and that which we might believe is normative. I rely on Kant’s critique of theoretical and practical reason to assess claims to objectivity in social science approaches to law, and to suggest it is not surprising that the operation of theoretical and practical reason would tend to the conflation of the descriptive …
Retribution And Corporate Crime, Kam C. Wong
Retribution And Corporate Crime, Kam C. Wong
Kam C. Wong
This paper explores the issue of whether the retribution theory can be applied as a justification for or as an assessment of corporate criminal punishment.
The fact that the white-collar criminals are being treated more leniently is no longer in doubt. The only question is whether the disparity in treatment is justified or more to the point whether it is fair? Issues of fairness in punishment are properly the concerns of retributionists. Ultimately, the question that needs to be answer is: on account of our understanding of the retribution theory what punishment properly fits corporate crimes and criminals? More generally, …