Gerald J Postema

Bentham and the Common Law Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of a classic in Anglo-American legal philosophy reopens the dialogue between Bentham's work and contemporary legal philosophy. Gerald Postema revisits the themes of the first edition in light of the latest scholarly criticism and provides new insights into the historical-philosophical roots of international law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198793052
• ISBN-10: 0198793057
• Artikelnr.: 52405595

Autorenporträt

Gerald J. Postema is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; a Guggenheim Fellow (2005-6); a Rockefeller Fellow, Bellagio (2001); and a Fellow of the Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies (1996-7). He has held visiting posts at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Athens, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Law, Custom, and Reason
1: Elements of Classical Common Law Theory
2: Law, Social Union, and Collective Rationality
3: Hume's Jurisprudence: Law, Justice, and Human Nature
4: Hume's Jurisprudence: Common Law Conventionalism
Part II Bentham's Critique of Common Law: The Roots of Positivism
5: Utilitarian Justice and the Tasks of Law
6: Bentham as a Common Law Revisionist
7: Custom, Rules, and Sovereignty
8: Plucking Off the Mask of Mystery
9: Utilitarian Positivism
Part III: Law, Utility, and Adjudication
10: The Judge as Paterfamilias
11: Judicial Virtues and the Sanctions of Public Opinion
12: Utilitarian Adjudication within the Shadow of the Code
13: The Coherence of Bentham's Theory of Law