Joseph Vining

Joseph Vining

Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law Emeritus
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1969-

Books

• The Song Sparrow and the Child: Claims of Science and Humanity. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
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• On the Future of Total Theory: Science, Antiscience, and Human Candor. Erasmus Institute Papers, 1999-01. [Notre Dame, Ind.]: Erasmus Institute, 1998. ​
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• From Newton's Sleep. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995.
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• A Note on the Application of Interpretive Theory to Legal Practice. [Toronto]: Univ. of Toronto, 1987.
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• The Authoritative and the Authoritarian. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986.
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• Legal Identity: The Coming of Age of Public Law. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 1978.
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Book Chapters

• "Meaning in the Natural World." In Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White, edited by J. Etxabe and G. Watt. Ann Arbor: Maize Books, 2014.
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• "Dignity as Perception: Recognition of the Human Individual and the Individual Animal in Legal Thought." In Understanding Human Dignity, edited by C. McCrudden, 573-90. Proceedings of the British Academy, 192. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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• "The Filaments of the Vicarious: Notes to the Authors of This Book." In Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought, edited by P. M. Brennan, H. J. Powell, and J. L. ammons, 13-34. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
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• "The Resilience of Law." In Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force, edited by H. J. Powell and J. B. White, 151-71. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2009.
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• "Authority and Reality." In Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church, edited by P. M. Brennan, 3-20. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007.
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• "Fuller and Language." In Rediscovering Fuller: Essays on Implicit Law and Institutional Design, edited by W. J. Witteveen and W. van der Burg, 453-78. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press, 1999.
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• "Administrative Agencies." In Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, edited by L. W. Levy et al., suppl. 1, 6-8. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
• Co-author. "L'accesso del cittadino al controllo giudiziario in un contesto transnazionale e federale." In Un nuovo diritto per l'Europa: Uno sguardo d'oltre oceano, by E. Stein, translated by I. Mattei, 221-44. E. Stein, co-author. Milan: Giuffrè, 1991.
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• "Generalization in Interpretive Theory." In Law and the Order of Culture, edited by R. Post. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991.
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• Co-author. "Citizen Access to Judicial Review of Administrative Action in a Transnational and Federal Context." E. Stein, co-author. In European Law and the Individual, edited by F. G. Jacobs. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1976.
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Journal Articles

• "Jack Sammons as Therapist." Mercer L. Rev. 66, no. 4 (2015): 335-43.
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• "Reading John Noonan." Vill. L. Rev.59, no. 4 (2014): 715-27.
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• "Eric Stein." Mich J. Int'l L. 33, no. 1 (2011): 21-2.
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• "The Filaments of the Vicarious." Vill. L. Rev. 55, no. 6 (2010): 1089-106.
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• "The Consequence of Human Differences." J. L. Phil. & Culture 5, no. 1 (2010): 21-42.
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• "Human Identity: The Question Presented by Human-Animal Hybridization." Stan. J. Animal L. & Pol'y 1, no. 1 (2008): 50-68.
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• "Animal Cruelty Laws and Factory Farming." Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 106, no. 5 (2008): 123-7.
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• "The Mystery of the Individual in Modern Law." Vill. L. Rev. 52, no. 1 (2007): 1-19.
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• "Legal Commitments and Religious Commitments." San Diego L. Rev. 44, no. 1 (2007): 69-84.
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• "What's Real for Law?" Law Quad. Notes 49, no. 1 (2006): 77-9. (Adapted from a paper Vining presented at a Lilly Foundation conference at Notre Dame Law School, and a lecture given October 2005 at a symposium at the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Culture, Catholic University Law School.)
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• "Law's Own Ontology: A Comment on Law's Quandary." Cath. U. L. Rev. 55, no. 3 (2006): 695-710.
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• "Corporate Crime and the Religious Sensibility." Punishment & Soc'y: Int'l J. Penology 5, no. 3 (2003): 313-25.
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• "Competition, Corporate Responsibility, and the China Question." Law Quad. Notes 45, no. 3 (2003): 83-8. (Essay based on a talk presented while serving as the Sir Edward Youde Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in June 2002.)
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• "'The Least of the Sentient Beings' and the Question of Reduction, Refinement, and Replacement." Law Quad. Notes 46, no. 2 (2003): 82-8. (Based on Professor Vining's keynote address delivered at the annual meeting of the Michigan Society for Medical Research in Lansing, April 2003.)
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• "Is There an Implicit Theology in the Practice of Ordinary Law?" Mercer L. Rev. 53, no. 3 (2002): 1047-54. (Symposium: The Theology of the Practice of Law.)
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• "The Gift of Language." Notre Dame L. Rev. 73, no. 5 (1998): 1581-98. (Propter Honoris Respectum: Mary Ann Glendon.)
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• "Corporations, Criminal Law and the Color of Money." Law Quad. Notes 40, no. 1 (1997): 87-8.
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• "Theorists' Belief: A Comment on the Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism." Notre Dame L. Rev. 72, no. 1 (1996): 15-27. (In "H. Jefferson Powell on the American Constitutional Tradition: A Conversation," edited by T. L. Shaffer and J. H. Robinson. Notre Dame L.Rev. 72, no. 1 (1996): 11-88.)
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• "The Cosmological Question: A Response to Milner S. Ball's 'All the Company of Heaven'." Mich. L. Rev. 94, no. 6 (1996): 2024-8.
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• "Justice, Bureaucracy, and Legal Method." Long Term View: J. Informed Opinion 3, no. 1 (1995): 107-9.
• "Authority and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Deference." Admin. L. Rev. 43 (1991): 135-46.
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• "Kevin E. Kennedy." Mich. L. Rev. 89 (1990): 437-8.
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• "Generalization in Interpretive Theory." Representations 30 (1990): 1-12.
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• "Legal Affinities." Ga. L. Rev. 23 (1989): 1035-51.
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• "Law and Enchantment: The Place of Belief." Mich. L. Rev. 86 (1987): 577-97.
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• "Justice and the Bureaucratization of Appellate Courts." em>Windsor Y. B. Access to Just. 2 (1982): 3-15.
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• "Justice, Bureaucracy, and Legal Method." Mich. L. Rev. 80 (1981): 248-58.
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• Co-author. "Citizen Access to Judicial Review of Administrative Action in a Transnational and Federal Context." E. Stein, co-author. Am. J. Int'l L. 70 (1976): 219-41.
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• "Delegate Selection Reform and the Extension of Law into Politics." Va. L. Rev. 60 (1974): 1389-413.
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• "Direct Judicial Review and the Doctrine of Ripeness in Administrative Law." Mich. L. Rev. 69 (1971): 1443-546.
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Reviews

• Review of Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech, by K. Greenawalt. Common Knowledge 5, no. 3 (1996): 63.
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Works in Progress & Working Papers

• The Effect of Economic Integration with China on the Future of American Corporate Law. U of Michigan Law & Economics Empirical Legal Studies Center Research Paper No. 10-012; U of Michigan Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 192. Working Paper.
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• China, Business Law, and Finance -- Accession to the World Trade Organization. U of Michigan Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 123; U of Michigan John M. Olin Center for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 90. Working Paper.
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