The Faces of Virtue in Law

ISBN-13: 9781032081809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Amalia Amaya; Claudio Michelon

Opis

This volume investigates crucial ways in which our understanding of the law can be enhanced by employing the explanatory frameworks developed by Virtue Jurisprudence in the past few decades. It was originally published as a special issue of Jurisprudence.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Virtue as the end of law: an aretaic theory of legislation  2. Plato on law-abidance and a path to natural law  3. Can the law help us to be moral?  4. Lawfulness and the perception of legal salience  5. Common virtue and the perspectival imagination: Adam Smith and common law reasoning  6. The perceptive judge  7. Reconciling virtues and action-guidance in legal adjudication  8. The virtue of judicial humility  9. Legal risk, legal evidence and the arithmetic of criminal justice  10. Legal reasoning, good citizens, and the criminal law

O autorze

Claudio Michelon is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Edinburgh Law School, UK.

Amalia Amaya is British Academy Global Professor at Edinburgh Law School, UK, and Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.