Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism

Edited by Guillaume Tusseau, Professor of Public Law, Sciences Po Law School, Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the Centre Bentham, France

• Contents1 Introduction: Putting critical jurisprudence to task 1Guillaume TusseauPART I MAPPING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE AND STRUCTURINGLEGAL GOVERNANCE2 Analytic jurisprudence 48Pierluigi Chiassoni3 A utilitarian theory of private law 67Craig Purshouse4 The rise of utilitarianism in criminal justice 82Malcolm Thorburn5 Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, and the utilitarian constitution 97Xiaobo Zhai6 Bentham and administrative law 120Thomas Perroud7 Utilitarian legal procedures 134Francesco Ferraro8 Utilitarianism and the law of evidence 152Olivier Leclerc9 Utilitarian business ethics and company law 170Andrew Gustafson10 Jeremy Bentham and the genesis of law and economics: an alternative narrative 188Dina I. Waked11 Nudge and utilitarianism: a matter of preferences 206Malik Bozzo-Rey12 Bentham, Rawls and Sen on Law, Justice and Rights 225Sterling Harwood and Don A. HabibiPART II UNSETTLING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE AND DEBATINGLEGAL GOVERNANCE13 Utilitarianism and LGBT rights 240Benoît Basse14 Social order, cooperation, and the way out: a feminist reading of JeremyBentham, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler 257Paola Rudan15 Utilitarianism and reproductive rights 274Sarah Conly16 Utilitarianism and killing 287Tatjana Višak17 Health crises from a utilitarian perspective 302Xavier Bioy18 Medical ethics and utilitarianism 316Alicia Dorothy Mornington and David Smadja19 Transhumanism, politics, ethics and utilitarianism 332Jean-Yves Goffi20 A utilitarian approach to copyright law and generative artificial intelligence 349Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman21 Utilitarianism and panopticism 368Anne Brunon-Ernst22 Utilitarianism and religion 382Jean-Pierre Cléro23 Utilitarianism and migration 395Isabella Luisa Mariani24 Legal utilitarianism in environmental law: a critique of the critique 412Clément Lacombe25 Animal law through a utilitarian lens 428Régis Bismuth26 Fictions and legal ideology 444Claire Wrobel

‘This collection of essays discusses what utilitarianism may contribute to legal issues. The content is varied, covering topics as diverse as commerce, crime, migration, animal law, and AI. [...] This is a genuinely interesting work – especially the chapters on killing and healthcare, which feel incredibly topical.’