Preface

Introduction Pragmatism, Economics, Liberalism

Part One The Profession

1. The Material Basis of Jurisprudence

2. The Triumphs and Travails of Legal Scholarship

3. What Do Judges Maximize?

4. The Profession in Crisis: Germany and Britain

Part Two Constitutional Theory

5. Legal Reasoning from the Top Down and from the Bottom Up

6. Have We Constitutional Theory?

7. Legal Positivism without Positive Law

8. What Am I? A Potted Plant?

9. Bork and Beethoven

Part Three Variety and Ideology in Legal Theory

10. The First Neoconservative

11. The Left-Wing History of American Legal Thought

12. Pragmatic or Utopian?

13. Hegel and Employment at Will

14. Postmodern Medieval Iceland

Part Four Of Gender and Race

15. Ms. Aristotle

16. Biology, Economics, and the Radical Feminist Critique of Sex and Reason

17. Obsessed with Pornography

18. Nuance, Narrative, and Empathy in Critical Race Theory

Part Five Philosophical and Economic Perspectives

19. So What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?

20. Ronald Coase and Methodology

21. The New Institutional Economics Meets Law and Economics

22. What Are Philosophers Good For?

Part Six At the Frontier

23. Law and Literature Revisited

24. Rhetoric, Legal Advocacy, and Legal Reasoning

25. The Legal Protection of the Face We Present to the World

26. Economics and the Social Construction of Homosexuality

Credits

Index