Gerald Postema, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Gerald J. Postema is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; a Guggenheim Fellow (2005-6); a Rockefeller Fellow, Bellagio (2001); and a Fellow of the Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies (1996-7). He has held visiting posts at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Athens, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Part I: Law, Custom, and Reason 1. Elements of Classical Common Law Theory 2. Law, Social Union, and Collective Rationality 3. Hume's Jurisprudence: Law, Justice, and Human Nature 4. Hume's Jurisprudence: Common Law Conventionalism Part II Bentham's Critique of Common Law: The Roots of Positivism 5. Utilitarian Justice and the Tasks of Law 6. Bentham as a Common Law Revisionist 7. Custom, Rules, and Sovereignty 8. Plucking Off the Mask of Mystery 9. Utilitarian Positivism Part III: Law, Utility, and Adjudication 10. The Judge as Paterfamilias 11. Judicial Virtues and the Sanctions of Public Opinion 12. Utilitarian Adjudication within the Shadow of the Code 13. The Coherence of Bentham's Theory of Law
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