The legitimacy paradox

Rationality, Legitimacy, & The Law

American legal realism was committed to examining legal reasoning in terms of the actual experiences of judges. Because the realist project sought to use social science tools to examine human nature, the contemporary rise of cognitive neuroscience provides an occasion for reexamining legal realism’s foundational critique of the law. Realism’s attempt to examine “the actual facts of judicial beh...

The Legitimacy of Prohibiting Euthanasia

Résumé Abstract John Arras se positionne contre la légalisation du suicide assisté par un médecin et celle de l’euthanasie active sur la base des coûts sociaux, qu’il anticipe comme résultat probable de cette légalisation. Arras croit que la légalisation hautement balisée du suicide assisté est le premier pas vers la légalisation de l’euthanasie active sans restriction particulière, une prédict...

The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions.

Roe v. Wade was heralded as an end to unequal access to abortion care in the United States. However, today, despite being common and safe, abortion is performed only selectively in hospitals and private practices. Drawing on 61 interviews with obstetrician-gynecologists in these settings, we examine how they determine which abortions to perform. We find that they distinguish between more and le...

The Association of Effectiveness and Legitimacy

The prevention paradox or the inequality paradox?

In February this year, a new edition of Geoffrey Rose’s classical book Strategy of Preventive Medicine was published, with a commentary by Kay-Tee Khaw and Michael Marmot. The commentary summarizes the life and work of Geoffrey Rose, explains the main content and impact of the classical book and gives plenty of examples that illustrate the validity of Rose’s theses. Coincidentally, in the Febru...