Book Review: Liberal Neutrality. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Andrew Reeve.

Book review: Liberal Neutrality. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Andrew Reeve. London and New York: Routledge. 1989. Pp. 219. Reviewed by: Larry Alexander

Book Review: Liberal Neutrality. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Andrew Reeve.

Book review: Liberal Neutrality. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Andrew Reeve. London and New York: Routledge. 1989. Pp. 219. Reviewed by: Larry Alexander

On Alexander‟s “Legal Positivism and Originalist Interpretation”

Comentarios al texto de Larry Alexander disponibles en versión original aquí: https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/10495; y traducido al español aquí: https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/10494

Book Review: Whom Does the Constitution Command? by Larry Alexander and Paul Horton.

Book review: Whom Does the Constitution Command? By Larry Alexander and Paul Horton. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press. 1988. Pp. xii, 169. Reviewed by: Thomas P. Lewis

Does Hard Incompatibilism Really Abolish ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’? Some Thoughts in Response to Larry Alexander

In a challenge to recent writings of Derk Pereboom and Gregg Caruso,3 Larry Alexander makes the following claim: If one accepts the Pereboom-Caruso “hard incompatibilist” view of choice, which regards blame and retributive punishment as morally unjustified because free will is an illusion, then “normativity completely disappears.” In making this claim, Professor Alexander appears to hold that the moral distinction between right and wrong conduct (“normativity”) cannot effectively exist unless those who do wrong “deserve” to receive blame and punishment in response to their misbehavior. This is not, however, necessarily so

Race Matters

Book review: Should race matter?: Unusual answers to the usual questions. By David Boonin. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. vii + 441. Reviewed by Larry Alexander and Maimon Schwarzschild

Book Review: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Edited by Randy E. Barnett.

Book review: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Edited by Randy E. Barnett. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press. 1989. Pp. viii, 416. Reviewed by: Larry Alexander

Book Review: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Edited by Randy E. Barnett.

Book review: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Edited by Randy E. Barnett. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press. 1989. Pp. viii, 416. Reviewed by: Larry Alexander

The Importance of \u27The Gap\u27

One of the central dilemmas of law is what Larry Alexander has called the gap: general, determinate rules have significant benefits from the forward-looking perspective of a lawmaker, but generate outcomes that appear wrong from the perspective of individual actors. In this 25-year retrospective of Alexander\u27s initial article on the gap, I examine a possible way out of the dilemma of the gap, and conclude that it does not work

The Importance of \u27The Gap\u27

One of the central dilemmas of law is what Larry Alexander has called the gap: general, determinate rules have significant benefits from the forward-looking perspective of a lawmaker, but generate outcomes that appear wrong from the perspective of individual actors. In this 25-year retrospective of Alexander\u27s initial article on the gap, I examine a possible way out of the dilemma of the gap, and conclude that it does not work