Cover -- Special Issue: Law and the Liberal State -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Trading Truth for Legitimacy in the Liberal State: Defending John Rawls's Pragmatism -- Introduction: Addressing Liberal Constitutionalism's Post-Enlightenment Paradox -- Problems for the Open Competition Model -- Rawls's Method: Justification and Legitimacy without Truth -- The Liberal Philosophical Critique: Incoherence of Justice without Truth -- Rational Space for Justice without Truth -- Responding to the Non-Liberal Critique: Either Dogmatic or Naïve -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Neoliberal State's Janus Faces of Law -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism -- First Janus Face: Economics, the Market, and Individualism -- Second Janus Face: Criminal Justice and the Carceral State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Jury Nullification: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty -- Introduction -- Jury Nullification Explained -- Liberalism and Democracy -- Jury Nullification and the Liberal-Democratic Tension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Gays in the Military: Toward a Critical Civil Rights Account -- Introduction -- Critical Film Interpretation in Julie and Julia -- Understanding Shifts in State Interests and Group Accommodation Through Film -- Traditional Moral Law: Casablanca -- Transitional Morality: An Officer and a Gentleman -- Privacy and Morality: Brothers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Films -- Health Care and the Disembodied Politics of American Liberalism -- Introduction -- Two Kinds of Liberalism -- Policy Preoccupations of American Health Care Politics -- Informed Consent -- Medical Malpractice -- Patients' Bills of Rights -- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- American Liberalism and the Body -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes.

Acknowledgments -- References -- Nomos and Native American Narratives: The Duality of Law in the Liberal State -- Introduction -- Nomos and Native American Narratives -- Case 1: A.A. v. Needville Independent School District -- Case 2: Dreaming Bear v. Fleming -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.