Rawls and Law

Contents: Introduction; Part I Constitutional Law: Rawls on constitutionalism and constitutional law, Frank I. Michelman; Rawls and the law, Ronald Dworkin; Are there limits to constitutional change? Rawls on comprehensive doctrines, unconstitutional amendments, and the basis of equality, Charles A. Kelbley; A backdoor to policy making: the use of philosophers by the Supreme Court, Neomi Rao; Does philosophy deserve a place at the Supreme Court?, Thom Brooks. Part II Immigration: Immigration, association, and the family, Matthew Lister. Part III Political Liberalism and Public Reason: Political liberalism, Michael J. Sandel; The subject of liberalism, Frank I. Michelman; Some problems with public reason in John Rawls's Political Liberalism, Kent Greenawalt; Can a liberal take his own side in an argument? The case for John Rawls's idea of political liberalism, Ronald C. Den Otter. Part IV Private Law: On belling the cat: Rawls and tort as corrective justice, Kevin A. Kordana and David H. Tabachnick; Private order and public justice: Kant and Rawls, Arthur Ripstein. Part V Reparations: Rawls and reparation, Martin D. Carcieri. Part VI Global Justice and International Law: From Utopia to Kazanistan: John Rawls and the law of peoples, John Tasioulas; The incoherence between Rawls's theories of justice, Thomas W. Pogge; Why Rawls is not a cosmopolitan egalitarian, Leif Wenar; Preventing military humanitarian intervention? John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on a just global order, Regina Kreide; Human rights and liberal toleration, David Reidy; Name index.