John Lawrence Hill

Books and Chapters The Political Centrist, forthcoming Vanderbilt University Press, Fall, 2009. The Case for Vegetarianism (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996). The Enlightened Society (Theosophical Publishing House, 1987). Chapter: "The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs," in Drug Legalization:For and Against (Evans and Berent eds. 1992.)" Law Review and Journal Articles "The Constitutional Status of Morals Legislation," 98 Kentucky Law Journal 1 (2009)(forthcoming this Fall). The Five Faces of Liberty in American Political and Constitutional Thought, 45 Boston College Law Review 499-594 (2004). A Third Theory of Liberty: The Evolution of Our Conception of Freedon in American Constitutional Thought, 29 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 115-184 (2002). A Theory of Merit, 1 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 15-75 (2002). A Utilitarian Theory of Duress, 84 Iowa Law Review 275-338 (1999). Moralized Theories of Coercion: A Critical Analysis, 74 Denver Law Review 907 (1997) (by invitation for a symposium on "Exploitation and Coercion".) Law and the Concept of the Core Self: Toward a Reconciliation of Naturalism and Humanism, 80 Marquette Law Review 289-390 (1997). Mill, Freud, and Skinner: The Concept of the Self and the Moral Psychology of Liberty, 26 Seton Hall Law Review 92-182 (1995). Exploitation, 79 Cornell Law Review 631-699 (1994). What Does it Mean to be a Parent?: The Claims of Biology as the Basis for Parental Rights, 66 New York University Law Review 353-420 (1991) (quoted and analysis adopted by the Supreme Court of California in Johnson v. Calvert, 851 P. 2d 776, 781-82 (Cal. 1993)). Note, Freedom, Determinism and the Externalization of Responsibility in the Law: A Philosophical Analysis, 76 Georgetown Law Journal 2045-2073 (1988). Essays and Reports Supreme Court Review: Criminal Law Cases, 2001-02, Western New England College of Law, Oct. 19, 2002. A Critique of Moralized Theories of Coercion at a conference on Coercion and Exploitation, University of Denver, March 14-15, 1997 Advanced Directives and Proxy Decision - Making in the Care of the Incompetent, Terminally Ill Patient, delivered to the CEREC conference on Issues in Death and Dying, August 25, 1996 (to an international audience of attorneys and health care professionals.) Virtue and the Depersonalization of Professional Ethics, Paper delivered at a National Conference on Ethics in America, February 19-21, 1992. Beyond Biology: Toward and Intentional View of Parenting. Paper delivered at a conference on Science, Technology and Religous Ideas at the Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, Aprrl 6-7, 1990. Speaker and Consultant to the Chicago Bar Association, Development of the Law Committee. Participated in the analysis of proposed laws on surrogate motherhood to the Bar Association and to the Illinois State legislature. (1989-91). Other Publications Should Vegetarians Be Moral Proselytizers?, 17(6) The Animals' Agenda 44-45 (Nov./Dec. 1997). Member, Institutional Reviews Board for the Protection of Human Research Subjects, California State University at Fullerton (1993-94). The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs: A Jurisprudential Critique, in Drug Legalization: For and Against (Evans and Berent eds,. 1992). In Defense of Enforcement of the Surrogate Contract: A Reply to Field, 9 Politics and the Life Sciences 253 (February, 1991). The Case for Enforcement of the Surrogate Contract, 8 Politics and the Life Sciences 147 (February, 1990). In Defense of Surrogate Parenting Arrangements: An Ethical and Legal Analysis (Dissertation on file with UMI, 1989). Work in Progress Article: The Progressive's Delimma Book: The Moral and Political Consquences of Secular Materialism.

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