Course websites

Fall 2005 courses

• JLS 110 Western Legal Tradition
• JLS 602:  Law and Society:  Legal Theory

Other courses

• JLS 501:  Concept of Justice
• JLS 308: Justice, Morality, and the Law
• JLS 530:  Concepts of Punishment
  
• JLS 513: Law and Economics
• JLS 596:  Law, Technology, and Society
• JLS 610: Justice and Public Policy

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Web links

Law

• USSC+ Online Case finder
• ELS American Standard Law Dictionary
• WWLIA Legal Dictionary
• LEXIS/NEXIS (AU students only)

Philosophy

• Ethics Updates
• Philosophy in Cyberspace
• Philosophy Around the Web
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

General Reference

• Webster's Dictionary

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Biographical sketch

Currently, I am Associate Professor of Justice, Law and Society at American University. I am interested in philosophical questions such as "What is justice?" and "Why should we obey the law?" My education includes a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Before coming to AU, I was Senior Staff Associate at the Federal Judicial Center, where my responsibilities included development and implementation of sentencing guideline education for federal court personnel. My current research interests include the nature and limits of marriage, moral psychology, and the law's construction of mental illness.

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Selected Publications
 

• The Case Against Punishment, New York University Press, 2005
  
• "Power, Sex, and Friendship in Academia," Essays in Philosophy, vol 2, no. 2 (June 2001) [Text]
• "Punishment, Family, and State," in Larry May et al., eds., Liberty, Plurality, Equality (University of Kansas Press, 1998) [Abstract]
• "Punishment: An Institution in Search of a Moral Grounding," in Christine Sistare, ed., Punishment: Social Control and Coercion (Center for Semiotic Research, 1996). [Abstract]
• "Public Opinion, Crime Seriousness, and Sentencing Policy," (with James P. Lynch) American Journal of Criminal Law 22:703 Spring 1995 [Abstract]
• "Pluralism, Integrity, and the Interpretive Theory of Law," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, vol. 1, no. 3 (Winter 1994). [Abstract]
• "The Retributive Paradox," Analysis 54:72 (April 1994). [Text]
• "Race, Fairness, and Jury Selection," Behavioral Sciences and the Law 10:155 (1992). [Abstract]
• "Alternative Dispute Resolution in Federal District Courts," (with A. Leo Levin) University of Florida Law Review 37:29 (1985).
• "Exploitation and Coercion," Journal of Value Inquiry 15:319 (1981).

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dgolash@american.edu

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