Bernard Williams on Law and Jurisprudence

Daniel Peixoto Murata is Professor of Law at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil.Julieta A Rabanos is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Girona, Spain.Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the Centre for Law and Philosophy, University of Surrey, UK.

• Introduction: Bernard Williams as a Legal Philosopher, Daniel Peixoto Murata (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil), Julieta A Rabanos (University of Girona, Spain), and Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (University of Surrey, UK)Part I: Responsibility, Regret, and the Law1. ‘The idea of the voluntary is essentially superficial’: Bernard Williams on Responsibility and Political Freedom, Ulrike Heuer (University College London, UK)2. The Politics of Civic Maturity v the Politics of Justice: Reflecting on Bernard Williams’ Separation Thesis, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (University of Surrey, UK)3. Internal Reasons, Motivation, and the Proleptic Nature of Blame, Gerard Lang (University of Leeds, UK)4. Taking the Edge off Professional Ethical Dilemmas, Emmanuel Voyiakis (LSE Law School, UK)5. Response-Norm Concepts in Law and Morality: A Qualified Defence of Moral Luck, Benjamin C Zipursky (Fordham Law School, USA)6. Thinking about Shame and Necessity in Liberal Constitutional Theory, Emily Kidd White (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada)7. Political Realism, Tragedy, and the Violent Foundations of the State. Reading The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance with Bernard Williams, David Owen (University of Southampton, UK)Part II: Williams on the Methodology of Philosophy and Jurisprudence8. Creon’s Revenge: Lawfulness and the Genealogy of Law, Stephen Bero (University of Texas, USA)9. Law and Lawfulness: Genealogy, Jurisprudence and the Thought of Bernard Williams, Christopher Tollefsen (University of South Carolina, USA)10. The Idea of Humanistic Middle-Range Theory, Damian Cueni (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)11. Why Can’t Law be More like Morality? Christopher Kutz (U.C. Berkeley, USA)12. An Unusual but Successful Philosophical Marriage in Bernard Williams: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, Ronaldo Porto Macedo Jr (University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil)13. Law as a Test of Conceptual Strength, Matthieu Queloz (University of Bern, Switzerland)14. Practical Reasoning as Interpretation: Williamsian Remarks on Dworkin’s Methodology, Daniel Peixoto Murata (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil)15. A Williamsian Account of Jurisprudence as Conceptual Morphology, Miodrag Jovanovic, Bojan Spaic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)