David Lyons

Moral Aspects of Legal Theory

Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume comprises essays written over a period of twenty years in which Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to morality and justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780521438353
• ISBN-10: 0521438357
• Artikelnr.: 21685828

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The internal morality of law
2. On formal justice
3. Legal formalism and instrumentalism - a pathological study
4. Moral aspects of legal theory
5. Formal justice and judicial precedent
6. Derivability, defensibility and the justification of judicial decisions
7. Constitutional interpretation and original meaning
8. A preface to constitutional theory
9. Basic rights and constitutional interpretation
10. Critical analysis and constructive interpretation.