| Author | : Liam Murphy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2014-06-16 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0521834279 |
This advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy attempts to breathe new life into stalled research.
The Concept of Law
| Author | : Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Jurisprudence |
| ISBN | : |
How Our Laws are Made
| Author | : John V. Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Government publications |
| ISBN | : |
Law as a Means to an End
| Author | : Brian Z. Tamanaha |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2006-10-02 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1139459228 |
The contemporary US legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law.
The Federalist Papers
| Author | : Alexander Hamilton |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2018-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1528785878 |
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
The Common Law
| Author | : Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : Common law |
| ISBN | : |
What Makes Law
| Author | : Liam Murphy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2014-06-16 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1139991612 |
This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this book introduces the subject by stepping back from the fray to sketch the big picture, to show just what is at stake in these old debates. Legal philosophy has become somewhat arid and inward looking. In part this is because the disagreement between the main camps on the important questions is apparently intractable. The main aim of the book is to suggest both a diagnosis and a proper practical response to this situation of intractable disagreement about questions that do matter.
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.
Why People Obey the Law
| Author | : Tom R. Tyler |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2021-06-08 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1400828600 |
People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. He finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority. In his fascinating new afterword, Tyler brings his book up to date by reporting on new research into the relative importance of legal legitimacy and deterrence, and reflects on changes in his own thinking since his book was first published.
