This book comprises essays in law and legal theory celebrating
the life and work of Jim Harris. The topics addressed reflect
the wide range of Harris's work, and the depth of his influence
on legal studies. They include the nature of law and legal
reasoning, rival theories of property rights and their impact on
practical questions before the courts; the nature of precedent
in legal argument; and the evolving concept of human rights and
its place in legal discourse. Dewey proposed a new theory of
language, in which the form (such as symbols) and content of
language are not separated. The content of language includes the
physical aspects of the world, which are purely quantitative:
the life process, which involves functional responses to
qualities, and the human life process, which involves the
conscious integration of the potentiality of qualities to form a
functional whole. The pinnacle of this process is individuality,
or the emergence of a unique function to change (...) social
habits through a democratic p