Hume and law / edited by Ken Mackinnon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

David Hume and the 18th-century conception of natural law / Philip Milton -- David Hume and the empiricist theory of law / Sheldon Wein -- David Hume's legal theory: the significance of general laws / Neil McArthur -- The place of Hume in the history of jurisprudence / Alfons Beitzinger -- David Hume and justice / Ian F.G. Baxter -- Hume and Rawls on the circumstances and priority of justice / Andrew Lister -- Legal obligation in Hume / Luigi Bagolini -- Hume's reply to the Sensible Knave / Gerald J. Postema -- Hume's Knave and the interests of justice / Jason Baldwin -- From order to justice / Russell Hardin -- Rule-utilitarianism and Hume's theory of justice / Alistair Macleod -- Hume on justice to animals, Indians and women / Arthur Kuflik -- Hume's theory of property / George E. Panichas -- Property and possession: two replies to Locke : Hume and Hegel / Christopher J. Berry -- The advantages and difficulties of the Humean theory of property / Jeremy Waldron -- Rules, rights and promises / G.E.M. Anscombe / Promises, promises, promises, Anette Baier -- Hume and Kant on the social contract / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Hume and contractarianism / Frederick G. Whelan -- The shackles of virtue: Hume on allegiance to government / Rachel Cohon -- Hume and the future of the society of nations / R.J. Glossop -- The preservation of liberty / Nicholas Capaldi -- Philosophical preliminaries / H.L.A. Hart and Tony Honore -- Character, purpose, and criminal responsibility / Michael D. Bayles -- Hume on responsibility and punishment / Paul Russell -- Hume on punishment / A. Wesley Cragg -- To exclude or not to exclude improperly obtained evidence: is a Humean approach more helpful? / James Allan.