The value and purpose of law : essays in Honor of M.N.S. Sellers / edited by Joshua Kassner and Colin Starger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kassner, Joshua James, editor.

Starger, Colin, editor.

Series:

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Beiheft ; 160.

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Beiheft ; 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019]

Summary:

This book reveals and discusses the foundations of law and justice. Fifteen leading lawyers and philosophers of law, representing thirteen nations and fifteen different philosophical schools examine the value and purpose of law, and the nature and requirements of law and justice. Some of the world's most learned and provocative legal scholars address the ultimate questions of legal and social philosophy from all angles and the broadest possible perspective, with special reference to the work of Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers, and the republican, liberal, and analytical schools of legal thought. The conclusions reached here are not fully unanimous, congruent or conclusive, but they represent the pinnacle of legal scholarship as it exists today and furnish the necessary basis for any future study of law, justice, or the ultimate requirements of just, effective and legitimate law and society.

Contents:

The nature and purpose of law in early Greek thought / Richard Bett

Conversations about the rule of law: the public interest and law's ideals / Sanne Taekema

An essay in defense of a republican understanding of the relationship between liberty and law / Joshua Kassner

Law and emotion: how empathy forms judges' sense of justice / Marcelo Campos Galuppo

A short history of the idea of national law: the exception becomes the rule / Andrés Botero-Bernal

Contemporary states of exception and rule of law: general considerations from the French state of emergency November 14th, 2015-November 1st, 2017 / Véronique Champeil-Desplats

Questioning the moral understanding of law / Marijan Pavčnik

On the nature and purpose of law: what is it that we study when we study law? / Ricardo Guibourg

How should a feminist think about legal positivism? / Leslie Francis

Law as transformation / Stephan Kirste

Law and injustice in times of crisis / Gülriz Uygur

Constitutionalism and the idea of law / Matthias Mahlmann

The "nature" of law in a realistic and rhetorical philosophy / João Maurício Adeodato

Law as language and interpretation / Pierluigi Chiassoni

Some thoughts on the value and purpose of law / Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-515-12462-4