Jurisprudence Law and Ethics

Jurisprudence Law and Ethics
Author: Edgar Benton Kinkead
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298657503

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Law and Art

Law and Art
Author: Oren Ben-Dor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113671975X

The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic.

The Essential Nature of Law

The Essential Nature of Law
Author: William Sullivan Pattee
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781104440466

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Natural Law Jurisprudence in U.S. Supreme Court Cases since Roe v. Wade

Natural Law Jurisprudence in U.S. Supreme Court Cases since Roe v. Wade
Author: Charles P. Nemeth
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785272063

Since America’s founding, natural law principles play a critical role in the development of rights and human dignity. Commencing with the notion that rights are derived from a higher, metaphysical power over mere promulgation and human legislation, the natural law advocate sees law and human rights in the context of a more perpetual and perennial philosophy. Coupled with this is the view that the natural law provides a series of undeniable precepts for human operations or a natural prescription for human life based on the natural order. Hence early court cases tend to emphasize the “natural” versus the unnatural and just as compellingly argue that the natural order, aligned with the eternal law, delivers a measure for human action. Earlier US Supreme Court cases often use this sort of language in granting or denying rights in certain human activity. As a result, a survey of some of the most significant landmark cases from the Supreme Court are assessed in “Natural Law and the US Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade” and by implication, those cases which seem to disregard these fundamental principles, such as the slavery decisions, are highlighted.

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity
Author: David Luban
Publisher:
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2007
Genre: Dignity
ISBN: 9780511354427

A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics.

Lawyers and Justice

Lawyers and Justice
Author: David Luban
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 069118755X

The law, Holmes said, is no brooding omnipresence in the sky. "If that is true," writes David Luban, "it is because we encounter the legal system in the form of flesh-and-blood human beings: the police if we are unlucky, but for the (marginally) luckier majority, the lawyers." For practical purposes, the lawyers are the law. In this comprehensive study of legal ethics, Luban examines the conflict between common morality and the lawyer's "role morality" under the adversary system and how this conflict becomes a social and political problem for a community. Using real examples and drawing extensively on case law, he develops a systematic philosophical treatment of the problem of role morality in legal practice. He then applies the argument to the problem of confidentiality, outlines an affordable system of legal services for the poor, and provides an in-depth philosophical treatment of ethical problems in public interest law.

Reasoning in Ethics and Law

Reasoning in Ethics and Law
Author: A. W. Musschenga
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Legal and moral reasoning share much methodology, and they address similar problems. This volume charts two shared problems: the relation between theory, principles and particular judgments; and the role of facts and factual assertions in normative settings. The relation between 'theory' and 'practice' and between 'principle' and 'particular judgment' has become the subject of much debate in moral philosophy. In the ongoing debate, some moral philosophers refer to legal philosophy for a support of their views on the primacy of 'practice' over 'theory'. According to them, legal philosophy should have a more balanced view in that relation. In the contributions to Part One this claim is critically analysed. The role of the facts is underestimated in discussions on legal reasoning and legal theory, as well as moral reasoning and ethical theory. Factual statements enter into moral and legal discussions not only because they link the conclusion with a rule. They also play a role as background assumptions in supporting a theory. Its focus on the role of facts in normative reasoning makes this book of special interest to scholars of legal and moral argumentation.