Private Law Theory

Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law. By Seana Valentine Shiffrin. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp. xi, 223. $35. Professor Seana Valentine Shiffrin has produced an exciting new book, Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law. Shiffrin’s previous rigorous, careful, and morally sensitive work spans contract law, intellectual property, and the freedoms of association and expression. Speech Matters is in line with Shiffrin’s signature move: we ought to reform our social practices and legal and political institutions to, in various ways, address or accommodate moral values — here, a stringent moral prohibition against lying, a strident principle of promissory fidelity, that is, the principle that one ought to keep one’s promises, and the general value of veracity … (more)

David Blankfein-Tabachnick, ‘Property, Duress, and Consensual Relationships’, 114 Michigan Law Review 1013 (2016).

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