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List of Figures . . xi
List of Tables . . xvii
List of Contributors . . xxiii

1. New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future . . 1

PART ONE: Overview
2. The Big Picture: Demographic and Other Changes . . 33
3. The New York and Los Angeles Economies from Boom to Crisis . . 79
4. America's Leading International Trade Centers and their Entrepreneurial Agencies: Challenges and Strategies in the New York and Los Angeles Regions . . 103

PART TWO: Politics and Economics
5. New York City and Los Angeles: Government and Political Influence . . 137
6. Financial, Economic, and Political Crises: From Subprime Loans to Dodd-Frank, Occupy Wall Street, and Beyond . . 154
7. New York City and Los Angeles: Taxes, Budgets, and Managing the Financial Crisis . . 193

PART THREE: Social and Urban Problems
8. Policing, Crime, and Legitimacy in New York and Los Angeles: The Social and Political Contexts of Two Historic Crime Declines . . 219
9. Los Angeles and New York City Schools . . 263
10. How New York and Los Angeles Housing Policies Are Different — and Maybe Why . . 286
11. Residential Diversity and Division: Separation and Segregation among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Affluent, and Poor . . 310

PART FOUR: Immigration and Ethnic Communities
12. New York and Los Angeles as Immigrant Destinations: Contrasts and Convergence . . 343
13. The Transformation of Chinese American Communities: New York vs. Los Angeles . . 358

PART FIVE: Planning and Environmentalism
14. Planning Los Angeles: The Changing Politics of Neighborhood and Downtown Development . . 385
15. A Land Ethic for the City of Water . . 413
16. Environmental and Social Justice Movements and Policy Change in Los Angeles: Is an Inside-Outside Game Possible? . . 445

PART SIX: Culture
17. Los Angeles, Where Architecture Is At . . 469
18. New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago as Depicted in Hit Movies . . 484
19. The Nonprofit Sector in New York City and Los Angeles . . 513

Bibliography . . 533
Index . . 573

List of Contributors . . ix

1. Introduction . . 1

2. The Value of Vagueness . . 14
   1. Introduction . . 14
   2. Legal instruments and legal standards . . 15
   3. Varieties of vagueness in legal instruments . . 17
   4. The guidance value and the process value of precision . . 19
   5. Arbitrariness and the normative principle . . 20
   6. The arbitrariness of precision . . 22
   7. Precision can be impossible . . 24
   8. Vague standards delegate power in ways that may comport with the purpose of the law . . 26
   9. Vague standards can encourage desirable forms of private ordering that achieve the law's purposes . . 27
   10. Summary . . 28
   11. Conclusion . . 29

3. What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell Us about Interpretation . . 31
   1. Two kinds of vagueness . . 31
   2. Vagueness and the interpretation of legal, and non-legal, texts . . 33
   3. The value of vagueness . . 38
   4. Consequences for textualism . . 42
   5. Extending the lesson to the resolution of inconsistencies . . 44
   6. A note about legal positivism . . 51
   7. Purpose and normativity . . 52

4. Vagueness and the Guidance of Action . . 58
   1. Introduction . . 58
   2. State v Schaeffer . . 59
   3. The model of rules . . 62
   4. The model of standards . . 63
   5. Judgment and guidance . . 66
   6. Raz on authority . . 67
   7. Minimal guidance? . . 70
   8. Thick predicates . . 72
   9. Inchoate rules? . . 73
   10. Chilling behavior . . 75
   11. From traffic to torture . . 79
   12. The lesbian rule . . 81

5. Can the Law Imply More Than It Says? On Some Pragmatic Aspects of Strategic Speech . . 83
   1. The implied content of speech . . 84
   2. The normative framework of strategic speech . . 92
   3. Strategic speech in the law . . 96

6. Textualism and rhe Discovery of Rights . . 105
   1. Introduction . . 105
   2. Two models for discovering rights . . 112
   3. Cruel and unusual punishments . . 116
   4. Moral vision and constitutional interpretation . . 128
   5. Conclusion . . 129

7. Textualism, Intentionalism, and the Law of the Contract . . 130
   1. Jurisprudence as the science of legal effects . . 130
   2. A role for the philosophy of language . . 131
   3. Contract law and the law of the contract . . 134
   4. Gaps, default rules, and unenforceable provisions . . 135
   5. Textualism, hypothetical intentionalism, and the objective theory of contract . . 138
   6. Ambiguity . . 141
   7. Beyond ambiguity: Soper's Estate . . 147
   8. Personal meaning as the ground of contractual obligation . . 152
   9. An alternative account of'personal meaning' . . 157
   10. Skepticism about plain meaning . . 159
   11. Some conclusions . . 163

8. Modeling Legal Rules . . 165
   1. Introduction . . 165
   2. Particularism and rules . . 166
   3. That's it . . 167
   4. Distinguishing, overturning, and other legal actions . . 171
   5. Alternative I: Could legal rules be generics? . . 173
   6. Alternative II: Are legal rules governed by nonmonotonic logic? . . 176
   7. Conclusion . . 183

9. Trying to Kill the Dead: De Dicto and De Re Intention in Attempted Crimes . . 184
   1. Introduction . . 184
   2. Background: attempt, intention, and mens rea standards . . 187
   3. The solution . . 192
   4. Conclusion . . 216

10. Legislation as Communication? Legal Interpretation and the Study of Linguistic Communication . . 217
    1. Introduction . . 217
    2. Motivating the communication theory . . 221
    3. Refining the communication theory . . 226
    4. Raising doubts about the communication theory . . 233
    5. Different components and notions of communicative content . . 241
    6. Legislation and communication . . 250
    7. Conclusion . . 256

Bibliography . . 257
Legal Citations . . 265
Index . . 267

Introduction: The Golden Republic . . 3
1 Myth and Wartime . . 23
2 The Castle . . 57
3 Battles of the Legend Makers . . 95
4 Difficulties Abroad . . 136
5 A Time of Iron and Fire . . 174

Epilogue . . 215
Abbreviations and Definitions . . 221
Notes . . 223
Index . . 279

Introduction . . xiii

THE PHOTOGRAPH . . 3
THE NEED TO NAME . . 7
TAKING OVER JEWISH PROPERTY . . 10
PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE SHOAH . . 17
THE GROUNDS OF EXTERMINATION CAMPS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WAR . . 20
THE BONES . . 26
THE DEATH CAMPS AND THE LOCAL POPULATION . . 28
TENDING ONE'S GARDEN . . 39
THE TAKING OF JEWISH PROPERTY BY ORDINARY PEOPLE . . 41
ABOUT THE KILLING OF JEWS . . 45
THE KIELCE REGION . . 50
"THICK DESCRIPTION" . . 58
CLOSE-UP OF A MURDER SCENE . . 59
HUMAN AGENCY . . 64
THE PERIPHERIES OF THE HOLOCAUST . . 67
BACK TO PHOTOGRAPHY . . 69
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT JEWISH PROPERTY . . 74
A CERTAIN KIND OF PATRIOTISM . . 77
HUNTING FOR JEWS . . 80
JEWS AND OBJECTS . . 87
SCHMALTZOWANYE . . 92
SHELTERING JEWS FOR PAYMENT . . 96
AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE . . 99
NEW RULES AND EXPERT'S OPINIONS . . 104
WHERE WAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? . . 109
HYPOCRITE LECTEUR, MON SEMBLABLE, MON FRERE . . 116

Afterword . . 123
Index . . 125

List of Figures . . viii
Abbreviations . . ix
Introduction . . 1

I. THE PURPOSE OF THE PARK
1. Hunting . . 15
2. Economy . . 45
3. Landscaping . . 82
4. Status . . 99

II. PARKS AND SOCIETY
Introduction to Part II . . 119
5. Parks and the Crown . . 121
6. Parks and the Aristocracy . . 146
7. Parks and the Community . . 158

Conclusion . . 180
Bibliography . . 183
Index . . 211