The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy

ISBN-13: 9780199265671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 294 str.

Ruth C. a. Higgins

Opis

The Moral Limits of Law analyses the related debates concerning the moral obligation to obey the law, conscientious citizenship, and state legitimacy. Incorporating a comprehensive critical analysis of the methodology and substance of these debates in legal, political, and moral philosophy, it proposes an original theory of duty grounded in respect for persons, which accommodates the contemporary social tension between local and global obligations.

Recenzje

There is much of value in this volume for the philosopher trying to understand the nature of the obligation to obey the law within the modern polity. The extended discussions of theorists such as Dworkin, Green, Soper and Rawls in the later chapters are insightful and useful. Higgins manages to produce a fascinating and provoking account of obedience...

O autorze

Ruth C. A. Higgins graduated with first class honours in law from Glasgow University in 1995, as joint winner of the Dr John MacCormick Prize for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Law and winner of the Bennet Miller Prize for Private Law. Between 1996 and 2000, she undertook her DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, on a Snell Scholarship. During this time she held a lectureship in law at Corpus Christi College and spent time as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. She currently works in the Competition & Regulation department of the Sydney law firm Gilbert + Tobin.