The germ of justice: essays in general jurisprudence

"General jurisprudence is the theory of law in general, identifying features that law has wherever and whenever legal institutions exist. But it is no hermetic inquiry. Law depends on, and has consequences for, politics and morality. In The Germ of Justice, one of the subject's prominent e...

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1. Verfasser: Green, Leslie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York, NY Oxford University Press 2023
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"General jurisprudence is the theory of law in general, identifying features that law has wherever and whenever legal institutions exist. But it is no hermetic inquiry. Law depends on, and has consequences for, politics and morality. In The Germ of Justice, one of the subject's prominent exponents disentangles these relationships. Professor Leslie Green probes three clusters of problems: the nature of law as a social construction, the relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects. Along the way, Green asks what jurisprudence can learn from the social sciences, how it is related to the humanities, how it might make progress, and why it is of value. This wonderful and accessible text engages leading theories of law and key works of Hume, Kelsen, Hart, Dworkin, Finnis, and Raz. The Germ of Justice is a must-have work in contemporary jurisprudence and a powerful contribution to political theory and moral philosophy"--
"These essays in legal philosophy treat problems of general jurisprudence, that is, the theory of law as such: questions relevant to Canadian law as much as Czech Law, to canon law as much as customary law. I hope they make progress on the issues they discuss. But I have also chosen them in the hope that they will be within the reach of students of law, philosophy, or politics who are theoretically inquisitive but may have no prior grounding in the subject. I therefore tried to ensure that most are free-standing and avoid unnecessarily technicalities, so that others may not only to only eavesdrop on, but join in, these conversations in legal theory"--
Beschreibung:viii, 394 pages 22 cm
ISBN:9780192886941
0192886940

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