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Ethics and the Rule of Law
David B. Lyons
An introduction to the philosophy of law, which offers a modern and critical appraisal of all the main issues and problems. This has become a very active area in the last ten years, and one on which philosophers, legal practitioners and theorists and social scientists have tended to converge. The more abstract questions about the nature of law and its relationship to social norms and moral standards are now seen to be directly relevant to more practical and indeed pressing questions about the justification of punishment, civil disobedience, the enforcement of morality, and problems about justice, rights, welfare, and freedom. David Lyons is a shrewd, clear and systematic guide through this tangled area. The book presupposes no formal training in law or philosophy and is intended to serve as a textbook in a range of introductory courses.
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Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
Alan L. Feld, Michael O'Hare, and J. Mark Davidson Schuster
The authors analyze indirect subsidies, which are an important sources of support for the arts and a far larger source than direct subsidies. The authors provide a well-grounded and detailed description of how the U.S. tax system relates to the arts. They ask who pays, who benefits, who decides on the allocation, and what are the effects? The findings include a realization that the reallocation on resources that indirect subsidies induce are detrimental to both the tax payer and the arts
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Alternatives to Regulation: Managing Risks to Health, Safety and the Environment
Michael S. Baram and Kevin McAllister
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Tax Policy and Corporate Concentration
Alan L. Feld
Explores the relation between federal taxation and corporate concentration in the United States.
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Criminal Law Advocacy, v. 2: Guilty Pleas
David Rossman
Criminal Law Advocacy explores the important techniques behind successful criminal law practice and offers specific guidelines for using the proper procedures. Checklists, sample forms, and real-life examples of testimony are included, with expert author commentary throughout. Topics include:
• Trial Investigation and Preparation--Initial client interview, setting fees, case management, discovery, and motion practice
• Jury Selection--Substantive law, strategies, and techniques
• Guilty Pleas--Plea bargaining, the constitutional standards for accepting pleas, Alford pleas, plea agreement procedure
• Trial Proof--Real evidence, elements of guilt, privileges, objections and the operation of the rules of evidence
• Witness Examination--Strategies and techniques
• Argument to the Jury--Techniques and analysis of pertinent laws
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Marine Mining of the Continental Shelf: Legal, Technical, and Environmental Considerations
Michael S. Baram, David Rice, and William Lee
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Right to Counsel in Criminal Cases: The Mandate of Argersinger v. Hamlin
Sheldon Krantz, Paul Froyd, Janis Hoffman, David Rossman, and Charles Smith
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Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism
David B. Lyons
One can contrast the analogous general utilitarian principle in order to see whether it can be subjected to the criticisms offered against Act-Utilitarianism. From the notion of generalization one can begin to build up to the notion of a rule grounded in utility, thus incorporating into the analysis rule-utilitarianism. This book is the outcome of the analysis. The discussion examines several types of moral theory and preserves contact with the relevant literature, with theories that have been offered and discussed by philosophers. It deals with paradigms of various forms of utilitarianism and finds that little is gained by choosing one form rather than another. The book also holds that no pure utilitarian theory can account for some of one's strongest moral convictions.
Books written, edited, and contributed to by Boston University School of Law faculty members.
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