Why Do We Need Rules and Laws?

Why Do We Need Rules and Laws?
Author: Jessica Pegis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781510555464

The titles in the Be An Active Citizen series encourage readers to take an active role in their community. The titles explore what it means to be an active citizen and how to participate respectfully in the democratic process.

Why Do We Have Laws?

Why Do We Have Laws?
Author: Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 083688843X

Explains what laws are, why they're necessary, and how they're created and enforced in the United States.

Personalized Law

Personalized Law
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0197522831

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. "Personalized Law"---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. "Reasonable person" standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with their own "reasonable you" rule. Skilled doctors would be held to higher standards of care, the most vulnerable consumers and employees would receive stronger protections, age restrictions for driving or for the consumption of alcohol would vary according the recklessness risk that each person poses, and borrowers would be entitled to personalized loan disclosures tailored to their unique needs and delivered in a format fitting their mental capacity. The data and algorithms to administer personalize law are at our doorstep, and embryos of this regime are sprouting. Should we welcome this transformation of the law? Does personalized law harbor a utopic promise, or would it produce alienation, demoralization, and discrimination? This book is the first to explore personalized law, offering a vision of law and robotics that delegates to machines those tasks humans are least able to perform well. It inquires how personalized law can be designed to deliver precision and justice and what pitfalls the regime would have to prudently avoid. In this book, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat not only present this concept in a clear, easily accessible way, but they offer specific examples of how personalized law may be implemented across a variety of real-life applications.

The Law of Good People

The Law of Good People
Author: Yuval Feldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107137101

This book argues that overcoming people's inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.

Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties
Author: Tom Head
Publisher: Oneworld
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-08
Genre: History
ISBN:

Presents a global history of civil liberties, discussing what they are and why they are important, along with advice on ways to defend civil liberties.

Rules and Laws

Rules and Laws
Author: Ann-Marie Kishel
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822564025

This title offers emergent readers an introduction to the creation of and reasons for rules and laws at home, at school, and in the community.

Code

Code
Author: Director Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics and Roy L Furman Professorship of Law Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537290904

There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of exquisitely oppressive control.If we miss this point, then we will miss how cyberspace is changing. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where our behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space.But that's not inevitable either. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies.

How Rights Went Wrong

How Rights Went Wrong
Author: Jamal Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1328518116

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

Justice for Hedgehogs

Justice for Hedgehogs
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674071964

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms—philosophical, cynical, or post-modern—threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics—reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being—and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. We need a new revolution. We must make the world of science safe for value.

The Summer of Broken Rules

The Summer of Broken Rules
Author: K. L. Walther
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1728210305

A romance novel inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift! *NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER* This BookTok sensation is perfect for fans of Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty and Sarah Dessen's Along for the Ride. Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losing both the game ... and her heart. When Meredith Fox lost her sister, Claire, eighteen months ago, she shut everyone out. But this summer she's determined to join the world again. The annual family vacation to Martha's Vineyard seems like the perfect place to reconnect. Her entire extended family is gathering for a big summer wedding, and although Meredith is dateless after being unexpectedly dumped, she's excited to participate in the traditional Fox family game of assassin that will take place during the week of wedding festivities. Claire always loved the game, and Meredith is determined to honor her legacy. But when Meredith forms an assassin alliance with a cute groomsman, she finds herself getting distracted. Meredith tries to focus on the game and win it for her sister, but she can't help falling for him. And as the week progresses, she realizes she's not only at risk of losing the game, but also her heart. "The feel-good summer read of my dreams!"—Alicia, Goodreads Reviewer "Boy, did it also give me all the summer feels."—Larissa, Goodreads Reviewer "This book is bound to become a favorite of all who love contemporary romance."—Kelly, Goodreads Reviewer "If beachy contemporary romances are your jam, then trust me—you do NOT want to miss this book."—Jessica, Goodreads Reviewer