Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

ISBN-13: 9781138563957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 222 str.

Alan Norrie

Opis

Alan Norrie addresses the unresolved split between legal and ethical judgment. This split is seen as a product of the historical shaping of legal judgment, such that its abstraction and formalism both eschew ethical judgment, but also require it.

Spis treści

1. How Does Law Judge, How Should it be Judged?  Part 1: Law's Architectonic  2. Citizenship, Authoritarianism and the Changing Shape of Criminal Law  3. Between Orthodox Subjectivism and Moral Contextualism: Intention and the Law Commission Report  4. The Problem of Mistaken Self-defence: Citizenship, Chiasmus, and Legal Form  5. Legal Form and Moral Judgment: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide  6. Alan Brudner and the Dialectics of Criminal Law  Part 2: Law's Constellation  7. Justice on the Slaughter-bench: The Problem of War Guilt in Arendt and Jaspers  8. Ethics and History: Can Critical Lawyers Talk of Good and Evil?  9. Law, Ethics and Socio-History: The Case of Freedom  10. Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Justice

O autorze

Alan Norrie is Professor of Law and former Head of the Law School at Warwick University. He has held chairs at Queen Mary and King’s College, London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.