This book is the fifty-first volume of Current Legal Problems and contains the now customary selection of high-quality essays by a group of outstanding scholars. This volume gathers together a particularly valuable and broad-ranging set of contributions which makes for a stimulating study of legal theory at the end of the millennium
Imagining Bentham: A Celebration; The Dialectic of Might and Right: Legal Positivisms and Constitutional Change; Legal Positivism and Deliberative Democracy; Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World; Norms, Reason, and Law; Kelsen Tomorrow; Law and Correctness; On the Supposed Defeasibility of Legal Rules; Inclusion and Exclusion: Citizens, Subjects, and Outlaws; Practical Reason and Incompletely Theorized Agreements; Bentham and Recent Work in Natural Law: Towards Reconstructing an Unstilted Theory; Justice, Law, and Ronald Dworkin: Jurisprudence at the End of the Century; Law and Community: A New Relationship; Bentham's Influence on the Law and Economics Movement; Bentham as Proto-Feminist or An Ahistorical Fantasy on 'Anarchical Fallacies'; Critical Race Theory: Past, Present, and Future; Bentham, Truth, and the Semiotics of Law; Some Jurisprudential Foundations of Critical Legal Studies and Feminist Legal Theory