Juris Doctor / Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy

The philosophical underpinnings and implications of law have been a central concern for as long as there has been law. Ultimately, law is a system of rules to regulate society, and the goodness or badness of any rule must be judged by its success in promoting a more just society. Not surprisingly, then, what justice requires in a given sphere of activity and what set of rules will best achieve it are foundational questions in virtually every area of lawquestions answered by scholars exploring the intersection of law and philosophy. In the past century, legal philosophers have made major contributions in areas as diverse as the justification for criminal punishment, the meaning of consent in private contracts, the moral basis of private property rights, distributive justice in tax regimes, the welfare state, eminent domain and allocation of citizenship rights, a rights-based versus welfarist account of the tort system, the state's right to regulate family relationships, the justness of preventive war, the moral basis of legislation, intergenerational justice in environmental law, biomedical ethics, and the values of free speech and democracy in campaign finance reform.

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