Chiefly written as a textbook for first-year university law students, this book encourages critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and as a social institution. It explores the relationships between law, logic and science, examines the socio-economic role of law and asks what role the legal system plays in alleviating or exacerbating contemporary social problems, such as crime and punishment, terrorism, refugees and tort law reform.
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978-0-86840-834-7 (9780868408347)
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Dr Michael Head is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Western Sydney. Michael praviously taught law at LaTrobe, University of Adelaide and ANU in the 1970s, and returned to academic life in 1998 after two decades as editor of a socialist newspaper. Michael publishes regularly in the fields of socialist legal theory, civil liberties and refugee law and is editor of the University of Western Sydney Law Review. Dr Scott Mann has taught philosophy, psychology and critical social theory in the Universities of Sussex, Sydney, New South Wales and Western Sydney. He has had many years experience teaching in adult education with the WEA and has published books on psychoanalysis and society, and the sociology of religion.
Preface; Introduction; SECTION ONE: LOGIC, SCIENCE AND LAW; 1 Basic concepts of logical reasoning; 2 Legal reasoning; 3 Formal fallacies and fallacies of relevance; 4 Weak induction and presumption; 5 Proportions and correlations; 6 Causation and the precautionary principle; 7 Theoretical hypotheses; SECTION TWO: ETHICS, SOCIAL THEORY AND LAW; 8 Metaethics, rights and equality; 9 Normative ethics; 10 Natural law and legal positivism; 11 Liberalism; 12 Marxism and Law; 13 Efficiency and the market; 14 Regulating the market; 15 Is the market just?; 16 Inheritance and return to assets; SECTION THREE: LAW AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS; 17 Tort law reform; 18 Freedom of the will and criminal culpability; 19 Crime and punishment; 20 Terrorism and democratic rights; 21 Refugees and the nation-state; Notes; Index.
