Sympathy and antipathy : essays legal and philosophical / James Allan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allan, James, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law and ethics.

Consequentialism (Ethics).

Physical Description:

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Section A Scepticism

1 Internal and Engaged or External and Detached? 3

2 Positively Fabulous: Why it is Good to be a Legal Positivist 19

3 Truth's Empire: A Reply to Ronald Dworkin's 'Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It' 43

4 To Exclude or not to Exclude Improperly Obtained Evidence 75

5 Is the Right Road Wholly Lost and Gone? 87

6 Taking Spanking Seriously 109

Section B Constitutional Rights

7 Rights, Paternalism, Constitutions and Judges 135

8 Bills of Rights and Judicial Power

A Liberal's Quandary 157

9 Constitutional Interpretation v. Statutory Interpretation: Understanding the Attractions of 'Original Intent' 177

10 Liberalism, Democracy and Hong Kong 197

11 Why Business Learns to Love Bills of Rights 211

Section C Dialogues

12 A Tale of Two Scepticisms or Relying on What Comes Naturally or The Problem with Deriving an Epistemology from Literary Theory 225

13 Lon Fuller's "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers" 243

14 A Post-Speluncean Dialogue 257

15 A Centenary Path of the Law 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0754622894

OCLC:

49679307