Reinventing American Jurisprudence - George David Miller

Reinventing American Jurisprudence

Law through the Lens of Value
Buch | Hardcover
316 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3940-0 (ISBN)
127,20 inkl. MwSt
Using value analysis, the authors uncover the undercurrents of famous United States Supreme Court rulings. Value inquiry reveals surprising and alarming agendas while opening up a fertile ground for debate, scholarship, and an assessment of the values at the heart of a country.
This original approach to value provides a foundation for a new imaginative landscape in philosophy of law. "Value essentialism" identifies value formations such as a sacred cow and scapegoat tandem and the intensification of "oughtness" as it approaches sacred zenith values. Readers learn how Occam’s razor has been responsible for the death of many ideas; how the celebrated Other gains nuance as near and remote; and where a spectral assessment of probability and necessity leads. Analyses of Supreme Court cases grow out in different and exciting directions. Bell was not about eugenics, but another iteration of the value of efficiency and Yo Wick was as much about classism as it was about racism. Lochner involved not an ideological binary but three distinct value schemes. “Separate but equal” was refined as parallelism and exploitative tangents. In Brown, the Fourteenth Amendment took a significant subjective turn. In Heller, the communitarian position of stopping violence before it could start could be contrasted with the individualistic position of waiting until you see the whites of their eyes in your bedroom. Citizens United represented the best example of this axiological approach, raising the question: was the First Amendment designed to maximize participation or maximize democracy?

George Miller is retired professor of philosophy. Laura Brown is PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Iowa.

Part I: Introduction to a New Theory of Law

Chapter 1: The Primacy of Value

Chapter 2: Law Theories through the Lens of Value

Part II: Supreme Court Cases

Chapter 3: Self-Determination v. Efficiency, Buck v. Bell

Chapter 4: Human Being v. Degraded Being, Yo Wick v. Hopkins

Chapter 5: Security of Free Speech v. Wartime National Security, Abrams v. United States

Chapter 6: Partial Personhood v. Property, Dred Scott v. Sandford

Chapter 7: Integration as a Means of Securing Personal Liberty for All v. Segregation as a Means

of Securing White Supremacy and Limiting Personal Freedom, Plessy v. Ferguson

Chapter 8: Liberty Over Paternalism v. Judicious State Intervention Over Exploitative Liberty,

Lochner v. New York

Chapter 9: The Value of Interdependence v. Value of a Private and Independent Economic

Sphere, Wickard v. Filburn

Chapter 10: The Sacred Value of Privacy in Marriage v. Traditionalism, Griswold v. Connecticut

Chapter 11: Malicious Free Speech v. Libel of a Government Official, New York Times Co. v.

Sullivan

Chapter 12: The Subjective Turn of the Fourteenth Amendment vs. Separate but Equal, Brown v.

Board of Education of Topeka

Chapter 13: Collective Safety Net v. Individualistic Self-Defense, District of Columbia v. Heller

Chapter 14: The Absolute Value of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment v. Value of

Spiritual Heritage, Engel v. Vitale

Chapter 15: The Value of Privacy in the Bedroom vs. the Value of Social Stability, Lawrence v.

Texas

Chapter 16: Weaponized Words v. Fruition of Conscience in Action, Brandenburg v. Ohio

Chapter 17: Invidious Discrimination v. the Purity of White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia

Chapter 18: Health v. Liberty, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

Chapter 19: Venerated Objects v. Freedom of Speech, Texas v. Johnson

Chapter 20: Functional Judiciary v. National Security, United States v. Nixon

Chapter 21: The First Amendment as a Means to Secure Corporate Dominance v. First

Amendment as a Means to Secure Democracy, Citizens United v. Federal Election

Commission

Conclusion: One Hundred Eleven Mic Drop Takeaways, Conversation Starters & Stuff That Can

Startle the Stymied into Writing Creatively

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Laura Brown
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 227 mm
Gewicht 767 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Verfassungsrecht
ISBN-10 1-7936-3940-X / 179363940X
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-3940-0 / 9781793639400
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