Review of the hardback: '... it surpasses anything in the field in terms of rigor, comprehensiveness, and theoretical depth.' Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego, School of Law

• 1. Justification defenses: the issues; 2. Justification defenses and the conventional public morality; 3. Self-defense; 4. Self-defense and battered women; 5. Duress and systematically complete mitigation; 6. The limits of justification: necessity and nullification; 7. Conclusion.

Review of the hardback: '... it surpasses anything in the field in terms of rigor, comprehensiveness, and theoretical depth.' Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego, School of Law

• 1. Justification defenses: the issues; 2. Justification defenses and the conventional public morality; 3. Self-defense; 4. Self-defense and battered women; 5. Duress and systematically complete mitigation; 6. The limits of justification: necessity and nullification; 7. Conclusion.

Review of the hardback: '... it surpasses anything in the field in terms of rigor, comprehensiveness, and theoretical depth.' Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego, School of Law

• 1. Justification defenses: the issues; 2. Justification defenses and the conventional public morality; 3. Self-defense; 4. Self-defense and battered women; 5. Duress and systematically complete mitigation; 6. The limits of justification: necessity and nullification; 7. Conclusion.