- Introduction
- I. The Political Basis of Law
- 1. Political Judges and the Rule of Law
- 2. The Forum of Principle
- 3. Principle, Policy, Procedure
- 4. Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protest
- II. Law as Interpretation
- 5. Is There Really No Right Answer in Hard Cases?
- 6. How Law Is Like Literature
- 7. On Interpretation and Objectivity
- III. Liberalism and Justice
- 8. Liberalism
- 9. Why Liberals Should Care about Equality
- 10. What Justice Isn’t
- 11. Can a Liberal State Support Art?
- IV. The Economic View of Law
- 12. Is Wealth a Value?
- 13. Why Efficiency?
- V. Reverse Discrimination
- 14. Bakke’s Case: Are Quotas Unfair?
- 15. What Did Bakke Really Decide?
- 16. How to Read the Civil Rights Act
- VI. Censorship and a Free Press
- 17. Do We Have a Right to Pornography?
- 18. The Farber Case: Reporters and Informers
- 19. Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?
- Notes
- Index


A Matter of Principle
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ISBN 9780674554610
Publication Date: 01/01/1986