Bentham's Theory of Law and Public Opinion (Paperback)

1. Introduction Fred Rosen; 2. Law's rule: reflexivity, mutual accountability, and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 3. The soul of justice: Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law Gerald Postema; 4. Popular prejudices, real pains: what does a legislator do when the people err in assigning mischief? Michael Quinn; 5. Jeremy Bentham on taste, sex and religion Philip Schofield; 6. Bentham's jurisprudence and democratic theory: an alternative to Hart's approach David Lieberman; 7. Bentham's natural arrangement and the collapse of the expositor-censor distinction in the general theory of law Xiaobo Zhai; 8. Utility, morality and reform: Bentham and eighteenth-century continental jurisprudence Emmanuelle de Champs; 9. A defence of Jeremy Bentham's critique of natural rights Philip Schofield.