Books

Forgive the navel-gazing here, but perhaps some readers will be interested in some of the three books of mine that have appeared this year.

(1)  Marx, co-authored with Jaime Edwards, has just appeared.   Here's what the political philosopher Allen Buchanan (emeritus, Duke University; Laureate Professor, University of Arizona; author of Marx and Justice:  The Radical Critique of Liberalism [1982], among many other books) had to say about it:

A tour de force. Not only the best available introduction to Marx’s thought and to post-Marx Marxist theories, but also of interest to specialists. The organization is excellent, and the writing is always clear and jargon-free. It covers all the main topics that a book on Marx should address. It is remarkably fair and balanced, sympathetic to Marx’s ideas, but also appropriately critical of them.

You can read other reactions to the book here, including a lengthy excerpt from a referee report that gives a good sense of the volume.

(2) The fifth volume of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, which I edit with Leslie Green, will be available next month.  It includes new essays on philosophy of tort, criminal, and international law; on French legal realism and Bulygin's jurisprudence; and a variety of topics in general jurisprudence.  The authors are an international group of scholars from New Zealand, Singapore, France, Argentina, the U.K., as well as the United States.

(3)  For any Spanish readers, Teoría del derecho realista:  Ensayos selectos is a Spanish translation by the Mexican legal philosopher Francisco M. Mora-Sifuente of eight of my articles on realist jurisrpudence and related themes; it includes a new preface by me, and an introduction to my work by Dr. Natalia Scavuzzo from the University of Genoa (the leading center of Italian legal realism).  The book was published earlier this year by Zela Grupo Editorial, the leading South American publisher of legal philosophy.  (The essays translated are:  "What is a Realist Theory of Law?"; "Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine"; "Legal Realisms, Old and New"; "In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence)"; "Explaining Theoretical Disagreement"; "Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature"; "The Roles of Judges in Democracies:  A Realistic View"; and "The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy.")