Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Subject List by Topic -- Contributors -- The Encyclopedia -- A -- Aboriginal Legal Cultures -- Abortion and Infanticide -- Absolute Liability -- Abuse of Right -- Acquisition and Transfer -- The Original Acquisition of Property Rights -- The Transfer of Property Rights -- Act Requirement -- Action and Agency -- Action-based Philosophy of Law -- Actus Reus -- Administrative Decision Making -- Admissibility -- Aesthetics -- Aesthetics and Legal Interpretation -- Humanistic Critiques of Law -- Legal Regulation of the Arts -- Aesthetic Critiques of Legal Works -- Affinity -- African Philosophy of Law -- Theoretical Trends in African Jurisprudence -- African Jurisprudence and the Twenty-First Century -- Agency (Mandate) -- Aging -- Alternative Dispute Resolution -- Amendment -- American Jurists, 1860-1960 -- Analogy -- Anarchist Philosophy of Law -- Anselm (1033/4-1109) -- Anthropology -- Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274) -- Divine Law or Eternal Law (Lex Divina, Lex Aeterna) -- Positive Divine Law -- Natural Law (Lex Naturalis, Ius Naturale, Rectitudo Naturalis) -- Law of Nations (Ius Gentium) -- Human (Positive) Law (Lex Humana) -- Arbitration -- Act of Birth: The Disputants' Liberty and the Private Temptation -- Act of Growth: The Disputants' Constraint and the Public Temptation -- Beyond the Loop: The Arbitrators' Working Principles -- Argumentation -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) -- Array Theory -- Art -- Artificial Intelligence and Networks -- Asian Philosophy of Law -- Asylum and Refugees -- The Triple Role of Government in Asylum Policy -- Use of Legal Means to Limit States' Responsibility -- Attempts -- Augustine (354-430) -- Intentionalism -- Lying -- Homocide and Suicide -- Political Legitimacy -- Punishment -- Just War Theory -- Austin, John (1790-1859).

Authority -- Automatism -- Autonomy -- Axiology -- B -- Bankruptcy -- Beccaria, Cesare (1738-1794) -- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) -- Betrothal -- Betti, Emilio (1890-1968) -- Bill of Rights -- Charter Rights -- Blackstone, William (1723-1780) -- Bobbio, Norberto (1909- ) -- Bodenheimer, Edgar (1908-1991) -- Burial -- Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) -- C -- Capacity -- Capital Punishment -- Catholic Philosophy of Law -- Causation, Criminal -- Causation, Tort Law -- Cause-in-Fact -- Proof of Counterfactuals in Cause-in-Fact -- Proximate or Legal Cause -- Central and Eastern European Philosophy of Law -- Chaos Theory -- Character -- Charter Rights -- Bill of Rights -- Children -- Chinese Philosophy of Law -- Confucianism and Legal Philosophy -- The Legalists (Fa Jia) -- Cultural and Philosophical Symbiosis of Confucianism and Legalism -- The Present Situation -- Cicero, MarcusTullius (106-43 B.C.) -- Citizenship and Membership -- Civil Disobedience -- Civil Rights -- Civilian Philosophy of Law -- (General) Legal Theory -- Theory of Justice -- Theory of Legal Science -- History of the Philosophy of Law -- Civility -- Historical Background -- Contemporary Debates -- Codification -- Coercion (Duress) -- Coherence -- Collective Rights -- Common Good -- Common Law Philosophy of Law -- Commons -- Communitarian Philosophy of Law -- Conception of the Self -- Conception of Community -- Nature and Scope of Distributive Justice -- Priority of the Right over the Good -- Community -- Commutative Justice -- Comparative Law -- Compliance -- Compound Damages -- Compound Offenses -- Computers -- Confessions -- Configurative Philosophy of Law -- Confinement -- Conflict of Laws -- Conscience -- Conscientious Objection -- Consent -- Conspiracy -- Conspiracy as an Inchoate Offense -- Conspirators' Liability for Substantive Offenses -- Problems of Individuation and Scope.

Constituting Acts -- Constitutionalism -- Continental Philosophy of Law -- Contractual Obligation -- Contractualist Philosophy of Law -- Convention and Custom -- Corrective Justice -- Cossio, Carlos (1902-1987) -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Criminalization -- Actus Reus -- Mens Rea -- Criminology -- Critical Legal Studies -- Customary Law -- D -- Damages -- Death -- Death Penalty -- Decision Making, Administrative -- Decision Making, Judicial -- Decisionist Philosophy of Law -- Nihilism -- Law and Decision -- Historical Background -- Objections -- Deconstructionist Philosophy of Law -- Deemings -- Defenses -- Failure-of-Proof Defenses -- Affirmative Defenses -- Justification -- Excuse -- Distinguishing Justification from Excuse -- Mistake of Law -- The Theory of Defenses -- A Criterion for the Defenses -- The Moral Basis of the Defenses -- Democratic Process -- Deontic Logic -- Derrida, Jacques (1930- ) -- Derridean Jurisprudents -- Desert -- Deterrence, Strategic -- Deterrent Rationale -- Developing Countries -- Dewey, John (1859-1952) -- Difference Theory -- Dignity -- Diminished Capacity -- Discipline -- Discourse Epistemology -- Discourse Theory -- Discretion -- Disobedience -- Disposition of Remains -- Posthumous Harm -- Posthumous Rights -- Rights of the Living in the Bodies of the Dead -- The Importance of Symbolism -- Dispute Resolution -- Infra Disputationem: The Immersed Part of Legal Resolution -- Intra Disputationem: The Tip of Legal Resolution -- Judicial Resolution -- Alternative Dispute Resolution -- Supra Disputationem: Recourse to Legislation -- Distributive Justice -- Utilitarianism -- Justice as Fairness -- Rights-based Libertarian Theories of Justice -- Marxian-Egalitarian Theories -- Divorce and Marriage -- Domat, Jean (1625-1696) -- Donation -- Drugs -- Due Process -- Dueling -- Duress -- Durkheim, Emile (1858-1917) -- Duty.

Dworkin, Ronald (1931- ) -- E -- Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction -- Nonjurisdictional Offices -- Internal and External Forum -- Ordinary and Delegated Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction in History -- Autonomy of Jurisdiction -- Ecology and Environmental Sciences -- Economic Loss -- Economics -- Rational Choice for an Agent -- Interpersonal Rational Choice -- Normative Assessment -- Economics and Law -- Efficiency -- Eminent Domain and Takings -- History -- Contemporary Debates -- Empirical Evidence -- Engagement -- Entrapment -- Entrenchment -- Environment -- Epistemology in Law -- Equality -- Error, Deceit, and Illusion -- Estate and Patrimony -- Ethics, Legal -- Euthanasia and Suicide -- Evidence -- Facts and Knowledge of Facts -- Processes of Inference -- Ex Post Facto Legislation -- Exchange -- Exculpation -- Exegetical School -- Existentialist Philosophy of Law -- Exploitation -- Expressive Rationale for Punishment -- Descriptive and Normative Expressionism -- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Expressionism -- F -- Facts and Law -- Fairness -- The Concept of Fairness -- Social Justice -- Legal Fairness -- Obligations of Fairness -- Family Law -- Fascist (National Socialist) Philosophy of Law -- Philosophical Foundations -- Sources of Law -- Anthropological Presuppositions -- Philosophy of Law and Legal Practice -- Fault -- Evolution -- Concept -- Federal Jurists, 1800-1860, U.S. -- Feminist Philosophy of Law -- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814) -- Fictions and Deemings -- Roman Law -- Early English Common Law -- Jeremy Bentham -- Henry Sumner Maine -- Lon L. Fuller -- The Danger of Reification -- Statutory Deemings -- The Call for Revival -- Fighting -- Finance -- Finnis, John (1940- ) -- Forgiveness -- Foucault, Michel (1926-1984) -- Founding Jurists, 1760-1800, U.S. -- Fragmentation of Ownership -- Franchise and Referendum -- Frankfurt School (Early).

Free Law Movement -- Freedom and Capacity of Contract -- Importance -- Definition -- Capacity -- Monopoly -- Mistake -- Fuller, Lon L. (1902-1978) -- Morality -- Law -- Internal Morality of Law -- Law and Morality -- Fundamental Rights -- G -- Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900- ) -- Game Theory -- Gény, François (1861-1959) -- Gift -- Goodness and Coherence -- History of the Idea -- Advantages of Coherence -- Disadvantages of Coherence -- Goodness -- Goods -- Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645) -- Group Rights -- Gurvitch, Georges (1894-1965) -- H -- Habermas, Jürgen (1929- ) -- Harms -- Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus (1907-1992) -- Hate Literature -- Hayek, Friedrich von (1899-1992) -- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) -- Hellenic Philosophy of Law: Conceptual Framework -- ΔIKH -- θEMΣ -- NEMΩ, NEMEΣIΣ, NOMOΣ -- ΓPAΦH -- APXH -- Hellenic Philosophy of Law: Primary Sources -- Homer -- Hesiod -- Philosophers -- Dramatists -- Historians -- Sophists -- Hellenistic Philosophy of Law -- Greek Law -- Stoics -- The Metaphysical Way -- The Anthropological Way of Kinship (Oikeiòsis) -- Epicureans -- Neoplatonism -- Hermeneutical Philosophy of Law -- Hire -- Hire of Goods -- Hire of Personal Services or Labor -- History (Historicity of Law) -- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) -- Hohfeld, Wesley Newcombe (1879-1918) -- Holdsworth, Richard (1590-1649) -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935) -- Homelessness and Residency -- Homicide -- Justifiable Homicide -- Excusable Homicide -- Murder -- Manslaughter -- Homosexuality -- Human Rights -- Hume, David (1711-1776) -- Husserl, Gerhart (1893-1973) -- Hutchinson, Thomas (1711-1780) -- I -- Idealists, British -- Ideology -- Ignorance -- Immunity -- Imperfect Obligation -- Imputation and Exculpation -- Incapacitative Rationale -- Inchoate Offenses -- Included Offenses -- Indeterminacy -- Indian, North American.

Indian Philosophy of Law.