David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal law. He is the author of nineteen books, including recently The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009), Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law (2010), and The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire (2013).

'Beautifully written and powerfully argued, Richards's Why Love Leads to Justice provides us with a new and original way of thinking about love and justice. A tour de force.' Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, New Jersey

• Introduction: love resists injustice; 1. Breaking the love laws as resistance; 2. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: love and resistance; 3. Christopher Isherwood's struggle for a resistant voice; 4. Wystan Auden on the anxiety of manhood; 5. Bayard Rustin on nonviolence; 6. James Baldwin on love and voice; 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict on resisting patriarchy; Conclusion: moral injury and love: why love leads to justice.

David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal law. He is the author of nineteen books, including recently The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009), Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law (2010), and The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire (2013).

'Beautifully written and powerfully argued, Richards's Why Love Leads to Justice provides us with a new and original way of thinking about love and justice. A tour de force.' Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, New Jersey

• Introduction: love resists injustice; 1. Breaking the love laws as resistance; 2. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: love and resistance; 3. Christopher Isherwood's struggle for a resistant voice; 4. Wystan Auden on the anxiety of manhood; 5. Bayard Rustin on nonviolence; 6. James Baldwin on love and voice; 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict on resisting patriarchy; Conclusion: moral injury and love: why love leads to justice.

David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal law. He is the author of nineteen books, including recently The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009), Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law (2010), and The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire (2013).

'Beautifully written and powerfully argued, Richards's Why Love Leads to Justice provides us with a new and original way of thinking about love and justice. A tour de force.' Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, New Jersey

• Introduction: love resists injustice; 1. Breaking the love laws as resistance; 2. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: love and resistance; 3. Christopher Isherwood's struggle for a resistant voice; 4. Wystan Auden on the anxiety of manhood; 5. Bayard Rustin on nonviolence; 6. James Baldwin on love and voice; 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict on resisting patriarchy; Conclusion: moral injury and love: why love leads to justice.