Xiaobo Zhai is Professor of Law at Zhengzhou University in China and Newton International Fellow at University College London. Michael Quinn is Senior Research Associate of the Bentham Project at University College London. His research focuses on Bentham's applications of the principle of utility to public policy.

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• 1. Introduction Fred Rosen; 2. Law's rule: reflexivity, mutual accountability, and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 3. The soul of justice: Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 4. Popular prejudices, real pains: what does a legislator do when the people err in assigning mischief? Michael Quinn; 5. Jeremy Bentham on taste, sex and religion Philip Schofield; 6. Bentham's jurisprudence and democratic theory: an alternative to Hart's approach David Lieberman; 7. Bentham's natural arrangement and the collapse of the expositor-censor distinction in the general theory of law Xiaobo Zhai; 8. Utility, morality and reform: Bentham and eighteenth-century continental jurisprudence Emmanuelle de Champs; 9. A defence of Jeremy Bentham's critique of natural rights Philip Schofield.

Xiaobo Zhai is Professor of Law at Zhengzhou University in China and Newton International Fellow at University College London. Michael Quinn is Senior Research Associate of the Bentham Project at University College London. His research focuses on Bentham's applications of the principle of utility to public policy.

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• 1. Introduction Fred Rosen; 2. Law's rule: reflexivity, mutual accountability, and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 3. The soul of justice: Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 4. Popular prejudices, real pains: what does a legislator do when the people err in assigning mischief? Michael Quinn; 5. Jeremy Bentham on taste, sex and religion Philip Schofield; 6. Bentham's jurisprudence and democratic theory: an alternative to Hart's approach David Lieberman; 7. Bentham's natural arrangement and the collapse of the expositor-censor distinction in the general theory of law Xiaobo Zhai; 8. Utility, morality and reform: Bentham and eighteenth-century continental jurisprudence Emmanuelle de Champs; 9. A defence of Jeremy Bentham's critique of natural rights Philip Schofield.

Xiaobo Zhai is Professor of Law at Zhengzhou University in China and Newton International Fellow at University College London. Michael Quinn is Senior Research Associate of the Bentham Project at University College London. His research focuses on Bentham's applications of the principle of utility to public policy.

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• 1. Introduction Fred Rosen; 2. Law's rule: reflexivity, mutual accountability, and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 3. The soul of justice: Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 4. Popular prejudices, real pains: what does a legislator do when the people err in assigning mischief? Michael Quinn; 5. Jeremy Bentham on taste, sex and religion Philip Schofield; 6. Bentham's jurisprudence and democratic theory: an alternative to Hart's approach David Lieberman; 7. Bentham's natural arrangement and the collapse of the expositor-censor distinction in the general theory of law Xiaobo Zhai; 8. Utility, morality and reform: Bentham and eighteenth-century continental jurisprudence Emmanuelle de Champs; 9. A defence of Jeremy Bentham's critique of natural rights Philip Schofield.