Law's Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of law's judgement, and its three components show that, when law judges us, it often does so in ignorance of our particular characters and abilities on the one hand, and in ignorance of our context and circumstances on the other. Law's judgement is thus insensitive to all or much that makes us the particular people we are. The book explores various connections between this mode...