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Justice in Robes

by Ronald Dworkin
$58.90
Justice in Robes
Justice in Robes

Legal philosophy meets moral truth criteria.

For those intrigued by the intersection of law and morality, "Justice in Robes" dives deep into the philosophical questions that touch upon the foundations of legal systems. Dworkin's exploration into whether moral standards shape legal truths will challenge your perceptions of justice and the law's role in our lives.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Justice in Robes

by Ronald Dworkin
$58.90
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ISBN: 9788175345683
Authors: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Universal Law Publishers
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Law, Philosophy, Politics
Related Topics: Theory
Goodreads rating: 3.68
(rated by 34 readers)

Description

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? Lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, politicians, and judges all have answers to that these range from "nothing" to "everything." In his new book Ronald Dworkin argues that the question is much more complex than it has often been taken to be and charts a variety of dimensions--semantic, jurisprudential, and doctrinal--in which law and morals are undoubtedly interwoven. He restates and summarizes his own widely discussed account of these connections, which emphasizes the sovereign importance of moral principle in legal and constitutional interpretation, and then reviews and criticizes the most influential rival theories to his own. He argues that pragmatism is empty as a theory of law, that value pluralism misunderstands the nature of moral concepts, that constitutional originalism reflects an impoverished view of the role of a constitution in a democratic society, and that contemporary legal positivism is based on a mistaken semantic theory and an erroneous account of the nature of authority. In the course of that critical study he discusses the work of many of the most influential lawyers and philosophers of the era, including Isaiah Berlin, Richard Posner, Cass Sunstein, Antonin Scalia, and Joseph Raz. Dworkin's new collection of essays and original chapters is a model of lucid, logical, and impassioned reasoning that will advance the crucially important debate about the roles of justice in law.
 

Legal philosophy meets moral truth criteria.

For those intrigued by the intersection of law and morality, "Justice in Robes" dives deep into the philosophical questions that touch upon the foundations of legal systems. Dworkin's exploration into whether moral standards shape legal truths will challenge your perceptions of justice and the law's role in our lives.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.