Lawrence A Alexander

Biographic Data

ID4306461
NAMELawrence A Alexander
GIVEN NAMESLawrence A
FAMILY NAMEAlexander
SIGNATUREALEXANDER L A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • Paternalism

    Open AccessGerald Dworkin, Douglas Husak et al.BOOKPaternalism2013

    Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether carried out by private individuals or the state. In th…

  • Toleration and Its Limits

    Kathryn Abrams, Lawrence A Alexander et al.BOOKToleration and Its Limits2008

  • Equal Protection and the Irrelevance of "Groups"

    Lawrence A AlexanderARTICLEIssues in Legal Scholarship2002

    In this article, I criticize Owen Fiss's "Groups and the Equal Protection Clause" on three bases. First, I argue that there is no attractive moral view available to underpin Fiss’s focus on groups. Second, I argue that the groups and their power and well-being that Fiss wants to make central to equal protection jurisprudence cannot be defined in any principled way by courts. And third, I argue that Fiss's candidate for the Equal Protection Clause…

  • International Ethics

    Lawrence A Alexander, Charles R Beitz et al.BOOKInternational Ethics1986

    This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars

  • Reiman’s Libertarian Interpretation of Rawls’ Difference Principle

    Lawrence A Alexander, Lawrence Alexander et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy Research Archives1984

    John Rawls’ Difference Principle, which requires that primary goods--income, wealth, and opportunities--be distributed so as to maximize the primary goods of the least advantaged class, has both a libertarian and a welfarist interpretation. The welfarist interpretation, which fits somewhat more easily with Rawls’ method for deriving principles of justice--rational contractors choosing principles behind the veil of ignorance--and with Rawls’ conte…

  • The Province of Constitutional Law Casebook Jurisprudence Redetermined

    Lawrence A Alexander, Paul BrestARTICLEStanford Law Review1977