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Author: Jessica Pegis
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781510555464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe titles in the Be An Active Citizen series encourage readers to take an active role in their community. The titles explore what it means to be an active citizen and how to participate respectfully in the democratic process.
Author: Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 083688843X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains what laws are, why they're necessary, and how they're created and enforced in the United States.
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-05-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0197522831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. "Personalized Law"---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. "Reasonable person" standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with their own "reasonable you" rule. Skilled doctors would be held to higher standards of care, the most vulnerable consumers and employees would receive stronger protections, age restrictions for driving or for the consumption of alcohol would vary according the recklessness risk that each person poses, and borrowers would be entitled to personalized loan disclosures tailored to their unique needs and delivered in a format fitting their mental capacity. The data and algorithms to administer personalize law are at our doorstep, and embryos of this regime are sprouting. Should we welcome this transformation of the law? Does personalized law harbor a utopic promise, or would it produce alienation, demoralization, and discrimination? This book is the first to explore personalized law, offering a vision of law and robotics that delegates to machines those tasks humans are least able to perform well. It inquires how personalized law can be designed to deliver precision and justice and what pitfalls the regime would have to prudently avoid. In this book, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat not only present this concept in a clear, easily accessible way, but they offer specific examples of how personalized law may be implemented across a variety of real-life applications.
Author: Yuval Feldman
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1107137101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that overcoming people's inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.
Author: Tom Head
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a global history of civil liberties, discussing what they are and why they are important, along with advice on ways to defend civil liberties.
Author: Ann-Marie Kishel
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 0822564025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title offers emergent readers an introduction to the creation of and reasons for rules and laws at home, at school, and in the community.
Author: Director Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics and Roy L Furman Professorship of Law Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-08-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781537290904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of exquisitely oppressive control.If we miss this point, then we will miss how cyberspace is changing. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where our behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space.But that's not inevitable either. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies.
Author: Jamal Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1328518116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0674071964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms—philosophical, cynical, or post-modern—threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics—reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being—and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. We need a new revolution. We must make the world of science safe for value.
Author: Tom R. Tyler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1400828600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. He finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority. In his fascinating new afterword, Tyler brings his book up to date by reporting on new research into the relative importance of legal legitimacy and deterrence, and reflects on changes in his own thinking since his book was first published.
