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Lesser Evils: A Closer Look at the Paradigmatic Justification

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    Larry Alexander

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Warren Distinguished Professor, University of San Diego school of Law. I would like to thank those who gave me individual comments: Mitch Berman, Kevin Cole, Ken Simons – as well as the participants at the conference on Justification and Excuse organized by the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, and those at the faculty colloquia at Cornell Law School and the University of San Diego School of Law. In addition, I would like to thank Rebecca Byrne, Jacinda Lanum, and Kevin Moon for their research assistance, and my dean, Dan Rodriguez, for his financial support.

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Alexander, L. Lesser Evils: A Closer Look at the Paradigmatic Justification. Law Philos 24, 611–643 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-005-0844-9

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