Without Trimmings The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer

Dr Mark McBride is a British and Irish legal scholar and philosopher, and currently an Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore. His active research interests include legal philosophy and epistemology. His work has appeared in publications such as the American
Journal of Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, and Episteme. Recently, he has articulated the core of his tracking theory of rights in Analytic Philosophy - a theory which he is developing at length in a forthcoming book, The Tracking Theory of Rights.
Dr Visa AJ Kurki is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His research interests include rights theory, legal personhood, and animal law. His monograph A Theory of Legal Personhood was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and described as "an
instant classic" in the Modern Law Review. His work has also appeared in journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory and the German Law Journal.

Part I: Rights & Right-holding
1. Correlation and Constitutional Rights, Professor Laura K. Donohue
2. Rights, Positivism, and the Vice of Self-Puffery: Why Kramer's Interest Theory is Nearly Right, Professor Rowan Cruft
3. The Interest Theory of Rights at the Margins, Dr Joseph Bowen
4. Are Legal Positivism and the Interest Theory of Rights Compatible?, Dr Visa AJ Kurki
5. Tracking the Resilience of Hybridity, Dr Mark McBride
Part II: General Jurisprudence
6. Objectivity, Legal Positivism, and the Possibility of Universal Error, Professor Brian H. Bix
7. Kramer & Inclusive Legal Positivism: Dancing on the Head of a Pin?, Professor Wil J. Waluchow
8. Kramer's Theory of Legal Positivism: Merits and Demerits', Professor Pierluigi Chiassoni
9. Purgative Punishment and the Importance of Perspective, Professor Gerald J. Postema
Part III: General Matters of Ethics
10. Metasemantics for Non-metaphysical Moral Realists, Dr Christine Tiefensee
11. Distinguishing Value-Neutrality from Value-Independence: Toward a New Disentangling Strategy for Moral Epistemology, Dr Lubomira Radoilska
Part IV. Freedom
12. Prevention, Coercion, and Two Concepts of Negative Liberty, Dr Michael Garnett
13. Negative Freedom and its Measurement: the Perils of Trivalence, Professor Ian Carter & Professor Hillel Steiner
Part V. Liberalism
14. Neutrality & Excellence, Dr Mark R. Reiff
15. Does Edificatory Perfectionism Have a Quidnunc Mentality?, Professor Collis Tahzib
Part VI. Applied Ethics
16. Purgative Punishment and the Importance of Perspective, Professor Antony Duff
17. Kramer on Freedom of Expression, Professor Chris Kutz
Replies Professor Matthew H. Kramer