Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ: Legal Reasoning 5
Introduction 7
1 An Introduction to Legal Reasoning&Edward H.Levi 11
2 Remarks on the Theory of Appellate Decision and the Rules or Canons about how Statutes are to be Construed&Karl N.Llewellyn 23
3 Formalism&Frederick Schauer 32
4 Incompletely Theorized Agreements&Cass R.Sunstein 43
5 Custom, Opinio Juris, and Consent&Larry May 54
6 Lochner v.New York （1905） 70
Questions 77
Part Ⅱ: Jurisprudence 79
Introduction 81
7 The Concept of Law&H.L.A.Hart 85
8 The Model of Rules I&Ronald Dworkin 99
9 Law as Justice&Michael S.Moore 108
10 The Economic Approach to Law&Richard A.Posner 129
11 The Distinction between Adjudication and Legislation&Duncan Kennedy 135
12 Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement&Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 145
13 Feminist Legal Critics: The Reluctant Radicals&Patricia Smith 152
14 Riggs v.Palmer （1889） 164
Questions 170
Part Ⅲ: International Law 171
Introduction 173
15 International Law&H.L.A.Hart 175
16 The Nature of Jus Cogens&Mark W.Janis 184
17 A Philosophy of International Law&Fernando R.Teson 187
18 The Limits of International Law&Jack L.Goldsmith and Eric A.Posner 200
19 The Internal Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention&Allen Buchanan 209
20 Humanitarian Intervention: Problems of Collective Responsibility&Larry May 221
21 Humanitarian Intervention: Some Doubts&Burleigh Wilkins 233
22 Prosecutor v.Tadic （1995） 240
Questions 244
Part Ⅳ: Property 245
Introduction 247
23 Of Property&John Locke 251
24 Locke’s Theory of Acquisition&Robert Nozick 258
25 Property, Title, and Redistribution&A.M.Honore 263
26 Philosophical Implications&Richard A.Epstein 269
27 The Social Structure of Japanese Intellectual Property Law&Dan Rosen and Chikako Usui 281
28 Historical Rights and Fair Shares&A.John Simmons 286
29 International News Service v.Associated Press （1918） 291
Questions 299
Part Ⅴ: Torts 301
Introduction 303
30 Causation and Responsibility&H.L.A.Hart and A.M.Honore 307
31 Sua Culpa&Joel Feinberg 315
32 Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory&George P.Fletcher 322
33 Tort Liability and the Limits of Corrective Justice&Jules L.Coleman 330
34 A Theory of Strict Liability&Richard A.Epstein 338
35 The Question of a Duty to Rescue in Canadian Tort Law:An Answer From France&Mitchell McInnes 348
36 Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California （1976） 356
Questions 362
Part Ⅵ: Criminal Law 363
Introduction 365
37 On Liberty&John Stuart Mill 369
38 The Enforcement of Morals&Patrick Devlin 377
39 Crime and Punishment: An Indigenous African Experience&Egbeke Aja 384
40 The Mind and the Deed&Anthony Kenny 392
41 Between Impunity and Show Trials&Martti Koskenniemi 402
42 Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law&Mark Drumbl 411
43 Defending International Criminal Trials&Larry May 423
44 Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal （1945）&Justice Robert H.Jackson 435
Questions 441
Part Ⅶ: Contracts 443
Introduction 445
45 Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts&Thomas Hobbes 449
46 The Practice of Promising&P.S.Atiyah 455
47 Contract as Promise&Charles Fried 465
48 Legally Enforceable Commitments&Michael D.Bayles 479
49 Unconscionability and Contracts&Alan Wertheimer 487
50 South African Contract Law: The Need for a Concept of Unconscionability&Lynn Berat 500
51 Williams v.Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.（1965） 511
Questions 515
Part Ⅷ: Constitutional Law 517
Introduction 519
52 Constitutional Cases&Ronald Dworkin 523
53 Does the Constitution Mean What It Always Meant?&Stephen R.Munzer and James W.Nickel 535
54 What’s Wrong with Chinese Rights? Toward a Theory of Rights with Chinese Characteristics&R.P.Peerenboom 548
55 Poverty and Constitutional Justice: The Indian Experience&Jeremy Cooper 569
56 Natural Law: Alive and Kicking? A Look at the Constitutional Morality of Sexual Privacy in Ireland&Rory O’Connell 585
57 Peremptory Norms as International Public Order&Alexander Orakhelashvili 602
58 The Gender of Jus Cogens&Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin 610
59 Plessy v.Ferguson （1896） 620
Questions 626