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Law, Virtue and Justice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law and Practical Reason SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781782250326
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law, Virtue and JusticeDDC classification:
  • 340.1
LOC classification:
  • K235 -- .L398 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Of Law, Virtue and Justice - An Introduction -- 1. Law, Virtue and Legal Reasoning -- 2. Practical Wisdom in Legal Decision-Making -- 3. The Role of Virtue in Legal Justification -- 4. Education and Paternalism: Plato on Virtue and the Law -- II. Law, Virtue and Character -- 5. Neoclassical Public Virtues: Towards and Aretaic Theory of Law-Making (and Law Teaching) -- 6. Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence -- 7. The Three Stages of Judges' Self-Development -- III. Virtue Theory and Criminal Law -- 8. Motivating Intentions, Reciprocal Specification of Ends and the Assessment of Responsibility -- 9. Liberal Virtue -- 10. Virtue, Vice and the Criminal Law - A Response to Huigens and Yankah -- IV. Legal Fact-Finding: Aretaic Perspectives -- 11. Virtues of Truthfulness in Forbearing Wrongs: Client Confidentiality Qualified by Legal Symmetry of Past and Future Harm -- 12. Virtuous Deliberation on the Criminal Verdict -- 13. Must Virtue be Particular? -- V. Law, Empathy and Justice -- 14. Empathy, Law and Justice -- 15. Empathy in Law (A Response to Slote) -- 16. On Empathy as a Necessary, but Not Sufficient, Foundation for Justice (A Response to Slote) -- 17. Reply to Deigh and Brison -- Index.
Summary: In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in virtue theory among legal scholars. 'Virtue jurisprudence' has emerged as a serious candidate for a theory of law and adjudication. This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives.
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Prelims -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Of Law, Virtue and Justice - An Introduction -- 1. Law, Virtue and Legal Reasoning -- 2. Practical Wisdom in Legal Decision-Making -- 3. The Role of Virtue in Legal Justification -- 4. Education and Paternalism: Plato on Virtue and the Law -- II. Law, Virtue and Character -- 5. Neoclassical Public Virtues: Towards and Aretaic Theory of Law-Making (and Law Teaching) -- 6. Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence -- 7. The Three Stages of Judges' Self-Development -- III. Virtue Theory and Criminal Law -- 8. Motivating Intentions, Reciprocal Specification of Ends and the Assessment of Responsibility -- 9. Liberal Virtue -- 10. Virtue, Vice and the Criminal Law - A Response to Huigens and Yankah -- IV. Legal Fact-Finding: Aretaic Perspectives -- 11. Virtues of Truthfulness in Forbearing Wrongs: Client Confidentiality Qualified by Legal Symmetry of Past and Future Harm -- 12. Virtuous Deliberation on the Criminal Verdict -- 13. Must Virtue be Particular? -- V. Law, Empathy and Justice -- 14. Empathy, Law and Justice -- 15. Empathy in Law (A Response to Slote) -- 16. On Empathy as a Necessary, but Not Sufficient, Foundation for Justice (A Response to Slote) -- 17. Reply to Deigh and Brison -- Index.

In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in virtue theory among legal scholars. 'Virtue jurisprudence' has emerged as a serious candidate for a theory of law and adjudication. This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives.

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