Mechanical Jurisprudence ...

Mechanical Jurisprudence ...
Title Mechanical Jurisprudence ... PDF eBook
Author Roscoe Pound
Publisher
Pages 126
Release 1908
Genre Law
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Mechanical Choices

Mechanical Choices
Title Mechanical Choices PDF eBook
Author Michael S. Moore
Publisher
Pages 613
Release 2020
Genre Law
ISBN 0190863994

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"This book assays how the remarkable discoveries of contemporary neuroscience impact upon our conception of ourselves and our responsibility for our choices and our actions. Dramatic (and indeed revolutionary) changes in how we think of ourselves as agents and as persons are commonly taken to be the implications of those discoveries of neuroscience. Indeed, the very notions of responsibility and of deserved punishment are thought to be threatened by these discoveries. Such threats are collected into four groupings: (1) the threat from determinism, that neurosciences shoes us that all of our choices and actions are caused by events in the brain that precede choice; (2) the threat from epiphenomenalism, that our choices are shown by experiment not to cause the actions that are the objects of such choice but are rather mere epiphenomena, co-effects of common causes in the brain; (3) the threat from reductionist mechanism, that we and everything we value is nothing but a bunch of two-valued switches going off in our brains; and (4) the threat from fallibilism, (5) that we are not masters in our own house because we lack the privileged knowledge of our own minds needed to be such masters. The book seeks to blunt such radical challenges while nonetheless detailing how law, morality, and common-sense psychology can harness the insights of an advancing neuroscience to more accurately assign moral blame and legal punishment to the truly deserving"--

Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide

Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide
Title Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide PDF eBook
Author Brian Z. Tamanaha
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 265
Release 2009-10-26
Genre Law
ISBN 1400831989

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According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases. In the 1920s and 1930s, the story continues, the legal realists discredited this view by demonstrating that the law is marked by gaps and contradictions, arguing that judges construct legal justifications to support desired outcomes. This often-repeated historical account is virtually taken for granted today, and continues to shape understandings about judging. In this groundbreaking book, esteemed legal theorist Brian Tamanaha thoroughly debunks the formalist-realist divide. Drawing from extensive research into the writings of judges and scholars, Tamanaha shows how, over the past century and a half, jurists have regularly expressed a balanced view of judging that acknowledges the limitations of law and of judges, yet recognizes that judges can and do render rule-bound decisions. He reveals how the story about the formalist age was an invention of politically motivated critics of the courts, and how it has led to significant misunderstandings about legal realism. Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide traces how this false tale has distorted studies of judging by political scientists and debates among legal theorists. Recovering a balanced realism about judging, this book fundamentally rewrites legal history and offers a fresh perspective for theorists, judges, and practitioners of law.

On the History of the Idea of Law

On the History of the Idea of Law
Title On the History of the Idea of Law PDF eBook
Author Shirley Robin Letwin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 364
Release 2005-11-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1139448498

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On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato's writings to today. Professor Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H. L. A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence. In all of this, Professor Letwin finds the rule of law to be the key to modern liberty and the standard of justice. This is the final work of the distinguished historian and theorist Shirley Robin Letwin, a major figure in the revival of Conservative thought and doctrine from 1960 onwards, who died in 1993.

The Jurisprudence of Law's Form and Substance

The Jurisprudence of Law's Form and Substance
Title The Jurisprudence of Law's Form and Substance PDF eBook
Author Robert S. Summers
Publisher Routledge
Pages 540
Release 2018-04-27
Genre Law
ISBN 1351792083

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This title was first published in 2000: Robert S. Summers is a distinguished legal theorist whose work has had significant influence in Europe as well as the United States. The study of form and substance in law, the theme of this collection, marks many of his most distinctive contributions to law and legal philosophy over four decades.

The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence

The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence
Title The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence PDF eBook
Author Roscoe Pound
Publisher
Pages 92
Release 1911
Genre Jurisprudence
ISBN

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In Germany To-day

In Germany To-day
Title In Germany To-day PDF eBook
Author Neutral (Writer)
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 1915
Genre Germany
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