David Lyons
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Lyons is an American moral, political and legal philosopher who is emeritus professor of philosophy and of law at Boston University. Education and career Lyons earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University where he studied under John Rawls. He taught at Cornell University from 1964 until 1995, when he joined the BU faculty. His former students include David O. Brink.
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- The Correlativity of Rights and Duties (1970) (104)
- Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience (1998) (77)
- Ethics and the rule of law (1983) (61)
- Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence (1976) (60)
- Rights, welfare, and Mill's moral theory (1994) (51)
- Mill's Theory of Morality (1976) (49)
- Redress for historical injustices in the United States : on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies (2007) (37)
- Principles, Positivism, and Legal Theory (1977) (33)
- Rawls Versus Utilitarianism (1972) (33)
- Moral aspects of legal theory (1993) (26)
- Liberty and Harm to Others (1979) (23)
- Open texture and the Possibility of Legal Interpretation (1999) (18)
- Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (1993) (16)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: On formal justice (1993) (14)
- The Two-headed Dragon: Environmental Policy and Progress Under Rising Democracy in Taiwan (2009) (14)
- In the Interest of the Governed: A Study in Bentham's Philosophy of Utility and Law. (1974) (13)
- Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health (2007) (13)
- Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory (2013) (11)
- Mill’s Theory of Justice (1978) (9)
- Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow (2003) (9)
- Founders and Foundations of Legal Positivism (1984) (8)
- Rights against Humanity (1976) (8)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Legal formalism and instrumentalism - a pathological study (1981) (7)
- Formal Justice, Moral Commitment, and Judicial Precedent (1984) (7)
- “A Day of Reckoning”: Dreams of Reparations (2007) (6)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Frontmatter (1993) (6)
- Logic and Coercion in Bentham’s Theory of Law (1972) (5)
- Environmental protection in Taiwan: Is it too much too fast? (2005) (5)
- The Legal Entrenchment of Illegality (2007) (5)
- Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow (2017) (5)
- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality (2007) (5)
- Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning (1986) (4)
- Unfinished Business: Racial Junctures in Us History and Their Legacy (2002) (3)
- Original Intent and Legal Interpretation (1999) (3)
- Reparations to African Americans (2007) (3)
- The Rise of the Reparations Movement (2007) (3)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Formal justice and judicial precedent (1993) (3)
- Derivability, Defensibility, and the Justification of Judicial Decisions (1985) (3)
- Bentham, Utilitarianism, and Distribution (1992) (3)
- The Social Dimension of Rights (2013) (2)
- The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans (2007) (2)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Moral aspects of legal theory (1993) (2)
- On Reading Bentham (1972) (2)
- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations (2007) (2)
- From Politics to Philosophy (2007) (2)
- Review of Rosen's Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (2006) (2)
- Soper's Moral Conception of Law (1987) (2)
- The Case for Reparations (2007) (1)
- Moral Judgment and Legal Theory (2000) (1)
- Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty (2007) (1)
- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy (2007) (1)
- Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith (2007) (1)
- Reparations and Equal Opportunity (2012) (1)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Contents (1983) (1)
- Nineteenth-Century New York City’s Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations (2007) (1)
- The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations (2007) (1)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: The internal morality of law (1993) (1)
- The Imperational Theory of Law (1991) (1)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Critical analysis and constructive interpretation (1993) (1)
- What’s Next?: Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations (2007) (1)
- The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations (2007) (1)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Preface (1993) (1)
- Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow (2007) (1)
- Political Liberalism, John Rawls. Columbia University Press, 1993, xxxiv + 401 pages (1996) (1)
- Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations (2007) (1)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Morality in law (1983) (1)
- The Moral Opacity of Utilitarianism (1999) (1)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Basic rights and constitutional interpretation (1993) (1)
- The Balance of Injustice and the War for Independence (2012) (0)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Constitutional interpretation and original meaning (1993) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Liberty and law (1983) (0)
- Slavery and the Rule of Law in Early Virginia (2012) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Introduction (1983) (0)
- Constitutional Principles (2021) (0)
- Book Review:The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions. Samuel Scheffler (1985) (0)
- The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case (2007) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Welfare, justice, and distribution (1983) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Notes (1983) (0)
- Professed Values, Constructive Interpretation, and Political History: Comments on Sotirios Barber, the Fallacies of States' Rights (2014) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Preface (1983) (0)
- 5 The Moral Opacity of Utilitarianism (2000) (0)
- Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations (2007) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: The rule of law (1983) (0)
- On justifying enforced requirements: A reply to Baier (1975) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Legal coercion and moral principle (1983) (0)
- VII—The Internal Morality of Law (1971) (0)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: A preface to constitutional theory (1993) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Law as social fact (1983) (0)
- Federal Acts and Resolutions (2007) (0)
- Book Review: Evidence, by Rubert Cross (1959) (0)
- Non-ideal theory and the application of cautionary precepts (2017) (0)
- Advocacy and Activism (2007) (0)
- Common Ownership & Equality of Autonomy (2017) (0)
- CAN UTILITARIANISMJUSTIFY LEGAL RIGHTS WITH MORAL FORCE? (2017) (0)
- The Politics of Racial Reparations (2007) (0)
- Book Review: The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, by Christopher J. Lebron (2015) (0)
- Philosophy, Politeness, and Party: David Hume and the Constitution of a Modern Social Order (2017) (0)
- Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors’ Story (2007) (0)
- The Balance of Injustice and the War for Independence; Multiculturalism and the American Revolution of 1776: A Response to David Lyons; Reply to John Bellamy Foster (1994) (0)
- The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism (2007) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Bibliography (1983) (0)
- Moral aspects of legal theory: Derivability, defensibility, and the justification of judicial decisions (1993) (0)
- Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Its Assumptions and Implications (2015) (0)
- Substance Process and Outcome in Constitutional Theory (1987) (0)
- Political Philosophy, Morality and the Law (1986) (0)
- Case Studies of Redress (2007) (0)
- Castles of Britain and Ireland : the ultimate reference book with over 1,350 gazetteer entries (1996) (0)
- Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense, and Urban Disorders (2019) (0)
- Book Review: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (1989) (0)
- Reason, Morality, and Constitutional Compliance (2013) (0)
- Ambiguity, Incoherence and Evaluation in Constitutional Theory (1988) (0)
- Railroads, Race, and Reparations (2007) (0)
- Normal Law, Nearly Just Societies, and Other Myths of Legal Theory1 (2013) (0)
- The Development of Bentham's Position (1991) (0)
- Bentham by Ross Harrison (1988) (0)
- Ethics and the rule of law: Moral judgment and the law (1983) (0)
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