The Morality of Law
Author: Lon Luvois Fuller
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788175341630
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Author: Lon Luvois Fuller
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788175341630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0195058240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.
Author: Roslyn Muraskin
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a work on the role of morality in the various components of the criminal justice system. Specifically the role of defense counsel and prosecutor, the role of the police, the court, corrections, probation and parole officers, and the victims of crimes themselves as well as related issues.
Author: Mark Osiel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019-02-25
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0674240200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. Mark Osiel shows that common morality—expressed as shame, outrage, and stigma—is society’s first line of defense against transgressions. Social norms can be indefensible, but when they complement the law, they can save us from an alternative that is far worse: a repressive legal regime.
Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780300021196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrasts liberal views in the tradition of John Locke with conservative Whig attitudes as personified by Edmund Burke in a consideration of moral duty and civil disobedience
Author: David Dyzenhaus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 1095
ISBN-13: 0802094899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its first publication in 1996, Law and Morality has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law. Now in its third edition, this anthology has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on equality, judicial review, and terrorism and the rule of law. The volume begins with essays that explore general questions about morality and law, surveying the traditional literature on legal positivism and contemporary debates about the connection between law and morality. These essays explore the tensions between law as a protector of individual liberty and as a tool of democratic self-rule, and introduce debates about adjudication and the contribution of feminist approaches to the philosophy of law. New material on the Chinese Canadian head tax case is also featured. The second part of Law and Morality deals with philosophical questions as they apply to contemporary issues. Excerpts from judicial decisions as well as essays by practicing lawyers are included to provide theoretically informed legal analyses of the issues. Striking a balance between practical and more analytic, philosophical approaches, the volume's treatment of the philosophy of law as a branch of political philosophy enables students to understand law in its function as a social institution. Law and Morality has proved to be an essential text in both departments of philosophy and faculties of law and this latest edition brings the debates fully up to date, filling gaps in the previous editions and adding to the array of contemporary issues previously covered.
Author: John Keown
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03-21
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 0199675503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Finnis is a pre-eminent legal, moral and political philosopher. This volume contains over 25 essays by leading international scholars of philosophy and law who critically engage with issues at the heart of Finnis's work.
Author: Adil Ahmad Haque
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0199687390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe laws are not silent in war, but what should they say? What is the moral function of the law of armed conflict? Should the law protect civilians who do not fight but help those who do? Should the law protect soldiers who perform non-combat functions or who may be safely captured? How certain should a soldier be that an individual is a combatant rather than a civilian before using lethal force? What risks should soldiers take on themselves to avoid harming civilians? When do inaccurate weapons become unlawfully indiscriminate? When does "collateral damage" to civilians become unlawfully disproportionate? Should civilians lose their legal rights by serving, voluntarily or involuntarily, as human shields? Finally, when should killing civilians constitute a war crime? These are the questions that Law and Morality at War answers, contributing to a cutting-edge international debate. Drawing on the concepts and methods of contemporary moral and legal philosophy, the book develops a normative framework within which the laws of war and international criminal law can be evaluated, criticized, and reformed. While several philosophical works critically examine the moral status of civilians and combatants, this book fills a gap, offering both an account of the laws of war and war crimes, and proposing how the law could be improved from a moral point of view. Finally, it explores when, if ever, the emotional pressures under which soldiers act should partially or wholly excuse their wrongful actions.
Author: Raymond Wacks
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780199214969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction provides a clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world.
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0198265573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDworkin's important book is a collection of essays which discuss almost all of the great constitutional issues of the last two decades, including abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexuality, pornography, and free speech. Dworkin offers a consistently liberal view of the Constitution and argues that fidelity to it and to law demands that judges make moral judgments. He proposes that we all interpret the abstract language of the Constitution by reference to moral principles about political decency and justice. His 'moral reading' therefore brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law. The various chapters of this book were first published separately; now drawn together they provide the reader with a rich, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law.