George David Miller is retired philosophy professor and president of Before I Read This Poem, a platform from which he has delivered thousands of writing workshops and performance poetry shows over the past three decades.

At a time when the U.S. legal system is coming under increased scrutiny over its possible complicity in enabling social inequality, racial injustice, and sexism, this critical analysis of the values underlying the major theories of law could not come at a better time.

• Part I: Introduction to a New Theory of LawChapter 1: The Primacy of ValueChapter 2: Law Theories through the Lens of ValuePart II: Supreme Court CasesChapter 3: Self-Determination v. Efficiency, Buck v. BellChapter 4: Human Being v. Degraded Being, Yo Wick v. HopkinsChapter 5: Security of Free Speech v. Wartime National Security, Abrams v. United StatesChapter 6: Partial Personhood v. Property, Dred Scott v. SandfordChapter 7: Integration as a Means of Securing Personal Liberty for All v. Segregation as a Meansof Securing White Supremacy and Limiting Personal Freedom, Plessy v. FergusonChapter 8: Liberty Over Paternalism v. Judicious State Intervention Over Exploitative Liberty,Lochner v. New YorkChapter 9: The Value of Interdependence v. Value of a Private and Independent EconomicSphere, Wickard v. FilburnChapter 10: The Sacred Value of Privacy in Marriage v. Traditionalism, Griswold v. ConnecticutChapter 11: Malicious Free Speech v. Libel of a Government Official, New York Tim

George David Miller is retired philosophy professor and president of Before I Read This Poem, a platform from which he has delivered thousands of writing workshops and performance poetry shows over the past three decades.

At a time when the U.S. legal system is coming under increased scrutiny over its possible complicity in enabling social inequality, racial injustice, and sexism, this critical analysis of the values underlying the major theories of law could not come at a better time.

• Part I: Introduction to a New Theory of LawChapter 1: The Primacy of ValueChapter 2: Law Theories through the Lens of ValuePart II: Supreme Court CasesChapter 3: Self-Determination v. Efficiency, Buck v. BellChapter 4: Human Being v. Degraded Being, Yo Wick v. HopkinsChapter 5: Security of Free Speech v. Wartime National Security, Abrams v. United StatesChapter 6: Partial Personhood v. Property, Dred Scott v. SandfordChapter 7: Integration as a Means of Securing Personal Liberty for All v. Segregation as a Meansof Securing White Supremacy and Limiting Personal Freedom, Plessy v. FergusonChapter 8: Liberty Over Paternalism v. Judicious State Intervention Over Exploitative Liberty,Lochner v. New YorkChapter 9: The Value of Interdependence v. Value of a Private and Independent EconomicSphere, Wickard v. FilburnChapter 10: The Sacred Value of Privacy in Marriage v. Traditionalism, Griswold v. ConnecticutChapter 11: Malicious Free Speech v. Libel of a Government Official, New York Tim