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Spector, Horacio
Books
- Rights: Concepts and Contexts (Brian Bix & Horacio Spector eds., Routledge 2012)
- Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford University Press 2008)
Journal Articles
- Luck Egalitarianism and the Spirit of Capitalism, 23 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 439 (2022)
- Constitutional Proportionality and Moral Deontology, 12 Jurisprudence 512 (2021)
- A Pragmatic Reconstruction of Law’s Claim to Authority, 32 Ratio Juris 21 (2019)
- Decisional Nonconsequentialism and the Risk Sensitivity of Obligation, 32 Social Philosophy & Policy 91 (2016)
- Two Conceptions of Justice and the Dystopia of Global Justice, 52 San Diego Law Review 107 (2015)
- Hume's Theory of Justice, 5 Rationality, Markets and Morals 47 (2014)
- The Reflective Nature of Moral Rights, 2 Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 35 (2014)
- The Irrelevance of Ideal Morality to International Law, 4 Philosophy of Law and General Theory of Law 214 (2013)
- Book Review: "The Representative Claim" by Michael Saward, 10 Perspectives on Politics 176 (2012)
- Four Conceptions of Freedom, 38 Political Theory 780 (2010)
- Value Pluralism and the Two Concepts of Rights, 46 San Diego Law Review 819 (2010)
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina: Economic Crises and the Restructuring of Financial Property, 14 Fordham Journal of Banking and Financial Law 771 (2009)
- The Right to a Constitutional Jury, 3 Legisprudence 111 (2009)
- Constitutional Transplants and the Mutation Effect, 83 Chicago-Kent Law Review 129 (2008)
- A Contractarian Approach to Unconscionability, 81 Chicago-Kent Law Review 96 (2006)
- Philosophical Foundations of Labor Law, 33 Florida State University Law Review 1119 (2006)
- Promises, Commitments, and the Foundations of Contract Law, 81 Chicago-Kent Law Review 3 (2006)
- Fairness and Welfare from a Comparative Law Perspective, 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 521 (2004)
- Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship, 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 345 (2004)
- The Future of Legal Science in Civil Law Jurisdictions, 65 Louisiana Law Review 255 (2004)
- Judicial Review, Rights, and Democracy, 22 Law and Philosophy 285 (2003)
- Rights, Equality, and Liberty, 4 The Journal of Ethics 166 (1999) (with Pincione)
- An Outline of a Theory Justifying Intellectual Property Rights, 11 European Intellectual Property Review 8 (1989)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Autonomy and Rights, in The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy (Ben Colburn ed., Routledge 2022)
- Positive Liberty and Paternalism, in Positive Liberty: Past, Present, and Future (John Christman ed., Cambridge University Press 2021)
- Verantwortung, Kausalität und freier Wille [Responsibility, Causality, and Free Will], in Brucken Bauen, Festschrift fur Marcelo Sancinetti Zum 70. Geburtstag (Eric Hilgendorf, Marcelo Lerman & Fernando Cordoba eds., 2020)
- A Risk Theory of Exploitation, in The Philosophic Foundations of Labor Law (Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester & Virginia Mantouvalou eds., Oxford University Press 2018)
- Legal Reasons and Upgrading Reasons, in Unpacking Normativity (Kenneth Einar Himma, Miodrag Jovanovic & Bojan Spaic eds., Hart Publishing 2018)
- Legal Philosophy and Law and Economics, in The Methodology of Law and Economics (Thomas Ulen ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)
- Derechos Humanos, in Diccionario de Justicia (Sage Publications 2016) (with Failache et al.)
- Modern Constitutionalism and Social Values, in Fundamental Rights: Justification and Interpretation (Kenneth Einar Himma & Bojan Spaic eds., Eleven International Publishing 2016)
- The Moral Asymmetry between Acts and Omissions, in Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael Moore (Kimberly Ferzan & Stephen Morse eds., Oxford University Press 2016)
- The Theory of Constitutional Review, in Constitutional Review and Democracy (Miodrag Jovanovic ed., Eleven International Publishing 2015)
- Autonomy, in The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (Fred D'Agostino & Gerald Gaus eds., Routledge 2013)
- The MMTS Analysis of Causation, in Perspectives on Causation (Richard Goldberg ed., Hart Publishing 2011)
- A Smithian Theory of Public Reason, in The Market Society and Its Morality - 250 Years of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (Manfred Petri & Michael Zöller eds., Bayreuth 2010)
- Legal Fictionalism and the Economics of Normativity, in Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Mark White ed., Cambridge University Press 2009)
- Is the Will Theory of Rights Superseded by the Hybrid Theory?, in Law: Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity (Enrique Villanueva ed., Rodopi Philosophical Studies 2007)
- Business, Government, and Law, in A New Economic History of Argentina (Geraldo della Paolera & Alan Taylor eds., Cambridge University Press 2004)