Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
1. Introduction: putting critical jurisprudence to task
Part I Mapping the legal landscape and structuring legal governance
2. Analytic jurisprudence
3. A utilitarian theory of private law
4. The rise of utilitarianism in criminal justice
5. Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill and the utilitarian constitution
6. Bentham and administrative law
7. Utilitarian legal procedures
8. Utilitarianism and the law of evidence
9. Utilitarian business ethics and company law
10. Jeremy Bentham and the genesis of law and economics: an alternative narrative
11. Nudge and utilitarianism: a matter of preferences
12. Bentham, Rawls and Sen on Law, Justice and Rights
Part II Unsettling the legal landscape and debating legal governance
13. Utilitarianism and LGBT rights
14. Social order, cooperation and the way out: a feminist reading of Jeremy Bentham, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler
15. Utilitarianism and reproductive rights
16. Utilitarianism and killing
17. Health crises from a utilitarian perspective
18. Medical ethics and utilitarianism
19. Transhumanism, politics, ethics and utilitarianism
20. A utilitarian approach to copyright law and generative artificial intelligence
21. Utilitarianism and panopticism
22. Utilitarianism and religion
23. Utilitarianism and migration
24. Legal utilitarianism in environmental law: a critique of the critique
25. Animal law through a utilitarian lens
26. Fictions and legal ideology
Index