Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

By Alan Norrie

Book Overview

In this follow-up to Alan Norrie's Law and the Beautiful Soul (Routledge, 2005), Alan Norrie addresses the unresolved split between legal and ethical judgment. This split is seen as a product of the historical shaping of legal judgment, such that its abstraction and formalism both eschew ethical judgment, but also require it. Covering a range of issues - including self defence, euthanasia, and war guilt - this exposition of the problematic relationship between legal and ethical judgment makes an important contribution to the central questions in law and legal theory, as well as criminal justice.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138955116
• ISBN13: 9781138955110
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"