Confronting Injustice

David Lyons is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Boston University. He has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards over his career, and is a member of the American Philosophical Association; the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (and past Vice-President thereof); the American Political Science Association; the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy; and the Association of American law Schools. He serves on several journal editorial boards.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. The Balance of Injustice and the War for Independence ; 2. Slavery and the Rule of Law in Early Virginia ; 3. The Legal Entrenchment of Illegality ; 4. Unfinished Business: Racial Junctures in US History and Their Legacy ; 5. Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow ; 6. Normal Law, Nearly Just Societies, and Other Myths of Legal Theory ; 7. Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience ; 8. Political Responsibility and Resistance to Civil Government ; 9. Courage and Political Resistance ; 10. Epilog: From Politics to Philosophy ; References ; Index

David Lyons's marvelous book is a most informed and majestically searching discussion of American Slavery. . . . tremendous intellectual power and insightfulness, as well as marvelous honesty of thought.