One of the first volumes in the new series of prestigious Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state of the art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Notes on the Contributors ix Natural Law: The Classical Tradition 1(60) John Finnis Natural Law: The Modern Tradition 61(43) Brian H. Bix Exclusive Legal Positivism 104(21) Andrei Marmor Inclusive Legal Positivism 125(41) Kenneth Einar Himma Formalism 166(40) Martin Stone Adjudication 206(62) William Lucy Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation 268(43) Kent Greenawalt Methodology 311(41) Jules L. Coleman Legal and Political Philosophy 352(30) Jeremy Waldron Authority 382(58) Scott. J. Shapiro Reasons 440(36) John Gardner Timothy Macklem Rights 476(38) F. M. Kamm Law and Obligations 514(34) Leslie Green Responsibility 548(40) Christopher Kutz Philosophy of the Common Law 588(35) Gerald J. Postema Philosophy of Private Law 623(33) Benjamin C. Zipursky Philosophy of Tort Law 656(31) Arthur Ripstein Philosophy of Contract Law 687(65) Jody S. Kraus Philosophy of Property Law 752(63) Peter Benson The Philosophy of Criminal Law 815(53) Larry Alexander Philosophy of International Law 868(67) Allen Buchanan David Golove Law and Language 935(34) Timothy A. O. Endicott Law and Objectivity 969(21) Brian Leiter Law, Sexual Orientation, and Gender 990(51) Edward Stein Index 1041