Plato and Modern Law

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Contents: Series preface Introduction Part I Overview of Plato's Political and Legal Thought: Plato's theory of law, Huntington Cairns Plato's legal philosophy, Jerome Hall. Part II Plato in the Tradition of Legal and Political Thought: What is political philosophy, Leo Strauss Positive language and positive law in Plato's Cratylus, James Bernard Murphy. Part III The Central Issue of Plato's Legal Philosophy: The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy, Gregory Vlastos. Part IV Plato's Theory of Law in the Dialogues: Apology: The legal setting of Plato's Apology, Robert J. Bonner An introduction for judges and lawyers to Plato's Apology of Socrates, William T. Braithwaite Crito: Law and justice in Plato's Crito, R.E. Allen Another look at the Crito, Philip Soper Gorgias: Law as myth: reflections on Plato's Gorgias, Ernest J. Weinrib The ethics of argument: Plato's Gorgias and the modern lawyer, James Boyd White Protagoras: Not Socrates but Protagoras: the sophistic basis of legal education, William C. Hefferman Republic: Plato's Republic and feminism, Julia Annas The meaning of 'justice' and the theory of the forms, Charles H. Kahn Implementing the ideal state, George Klosko The Republic in the light of the Socratic method: a contribution to the defense of Plato's political philosophy, Henry G. Wolz Laws: Platonic laws in a Colorado courtroom: Martha Nussbaum, John Furris and Plato's Laws in Evans v. Romer, Randall Baldwin Clark Plato and the rule of law, Glenn R. Morrow Plato's law code in context: rule by written law in Athens and Magnesia, Andrea Wilson Nightingale Laws, preambles and the legislator in Plato, M.J. Silverthorne Minos: An anonymous treatise on law: the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Minos, Anton-Herman Chroust Statesman: The Mantike Techne: statesman 260E and 290C4-6, Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith. Part V New Directions for Platonic Thought in the Law: Dialectic: The idea of dialectic, Mortimer J. Adler The Socratic m