Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Ethics & Professional Responsibility

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America.

The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by...

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America.

The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J....

The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a 'dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence' in which individuals are characterised by their rights and responsibilities into the Land.

Though a relatively "new" field, indigenous jurisprudence is the product of the oldest continuous legal system in the world. Utilising a range of texts - films, novels, poetry, as well as "law stories" CF Black blends legality and...

It is often said that to understand Plato we must understand his times. Many readers who might accept without question this saying of historical criticism may still wonder why we should think it necessary to begin our enquiry as far back as Homer and beyond. In the case of Plato there is an even greater need to pursue the argument back to the very beginnings of the historical period in which he lived and worked.

It is quite impossible to understand the genesis of Plato's ideas without understanding the profound change that Greek society underwent in the post-Homeric period that...

Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first and then "applying" it to practical moral problems. This ethics textbook, purpose built for undergraduates, with your interests, needs, and experience in mind, proceeds in the way we first begin thinking ethically - that is, by encountering practical moral problems and then introducing theory for understanding the issues at hand and interrogating them. You will be encouraged not to accept uncritically what anyone says about the issues; the mission of the book is to assist you in informed, independent, critical thinking.

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Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first and then "applying" it to practical moral problems. This ethics textbook, purpose built for undergraduates, with your interests, needs, and experience in mind, proceeds in the way we first begin thinking ethically - that is, by encountering practical moral problems and then introducing theory for understanding the issues at hand and interrogating them. You will be encouraged not to accept uncritically what anyone says about the issues; the mission of the book is to assist you in informed, independent, critical thinking.

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