4. How to “Abuse” a Right

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Defining the Puzzle 1
4. 1. Common Morality, Social Mores, and the Law 22
5. 2. A Sampling of Rights to Do Wrong 44
6. 3. Three Rights to Do Wrong 85
7. 4. How to “Abuse” a Right 109
8. 5. Law and Morality in Ordinary Language and Social Science 131
9. 6. Divergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources 153
10. 7. Convergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources 176
11. 8. Questions of Method and Meaning: The Law at Odds with Common Morality 195
12. 9. Why This Book Is Not What You Had in Mind 217
13. 10. The Changing Stance of Lawyers toward Common Morality 233
14. 11. Commercial Morality, Bourgeois Virtue, and the Law 246
15. 12. How We Attach Responsibilities to Rights 261
16. 13. Common Morality Confronts Modernity 288
17. Conclusion 319
18. Notes 333
19. References 429
20. Acknowledgments 491
21. Index 493