No Place for Ethics: Judicial Review, Legal Positivism, and the Supreme Court of the United States

by T. Patrick Hill

In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.S. Supreme Court rests on its mistaken positivist understanding of law--law simply because so ordered--as something separate from ethics. Further, to assert any relation between the two is to contaminate both, either by turning law into an arm of ethics, or by making ethics an expression of law. This legal positivism was on full display recently when the Supreme Court...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683933230
• ISBN13: 9781683933236
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"