
Justice and the Slaughter Bench
Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic
Alan Norrie(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2016
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-1-138-95511-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law's formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered ('law's architectonic'). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics ('law's constellation'). In Hegel's philosophy, legal and ethical judgment are brought together in a rational totality. Here, the synthesis remains unachieved, the dialectic systematically 'broken'. These essays cover such issues as criminal law's 'general part', homicide reform, self-defence, euthanasia, and war guilt. They interrogate legal problems, consider law's method, and its place in the social whole. The analysis of law's historicity, its formalism and its relation to ethics contributes importantly to central questions in law, legal theory and criminal justice.
Reviews / Votes
An indispensable starting point for those interested in what a genuinely critical, philosophically-engaged and social-theoretical approach to law looks like. It is the most recent instalment in a far-reaching, illuminating and important project that seeks to chart both law's nature and its place in the ethical landscape. - Professor William Lucy, Durham University, UK.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild
1 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-95511-0 (9781138955110)
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Person
Alan Norrie is Professor of Law and former Head of the Law School at Warwick University. He has held chairs at Queen Mary and King's College, London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Content
1. How Does Law Judge, How Should it be Judged? Part 1: Law's Architectonic 2. Citizenship, Authoritarianism and the Changing Shape of Criminal Law 3. Between Orthodox Subjectivism and Moral Contextualism: Intention and the Law Commission Report 4. The Problem of Mistaken Self-defence: Citizenship, Chiasmus, and Legal Form 5. Legal Form and Moral Judgment: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 6. Alan Brudner and the Dialectics of Criminal Law Part 2: Law's Constellation 7. Justice on the Slaughter-bench: The Problem of War Guilt in Arendt and Jaspers 8. Ethics and History: Can Critical Lawyers Talk of Good and Evil? 9. Law, Ethics and Socio-History: The Case of Freedom 10. Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Justice