In Ethics of War: A Short Companion, Paul D. Miller provides an accessible primer on the just war tradition and ethical issues surrounding combat and warfare.

Paul D. Miller brings his decade in the U.S. military, intelligence community, and policy worlds to bear on the question of what causes armed, international state-building campaigns by liberal powers…

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This collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of the philosopher Robert Nozick. The publication of Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia revived serious interest in natural rights liberalism. Some…

Autonomy is often recognized as a central value in moral and political philosophy, but there are fundamental disagreements over how autonomy should be understood, what it implies for public policy…

The essays in this volume address the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law, deal with specific constitutional provisions, explore questions of constitutional design and examine what…

Essays address questions about responsibility that arise in moral philosophy and legal theory. Some analyse different theories of causality; some look at responsibility in the legal realm; some explore libertarian…

The essays in this collection investigate two political traditions and their critical interactions. The first series of essays deals with the development of natural rights individualism. The second series of…