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Ignorance Of Law Is An Excuse - But Only For The Virtuous, Dan M. Kahan
Ignorance Of Law Is An Excuse - But Only For The Virtuous, Dan M. Kahan
Michigan Law Review
It's axiomatic that "ignorance of the law is no excuse." My aim in this essay is to examine what the "mistake of law doctrine" reveals about the relationship between criminal law and morality in general and about the law's understanding of moral responsibility in particular. The conventional understanding of the mistake of law doctrine rests on two premises, which are encapsulated in the Holmesian epigrams with which I've started this essay. The first is liberal positivism. As a descriptive claim, liberal positivism holds that the content of the law can be identified without reference to morality: one needn't be a …
Introducing Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse
Introducing Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law by Leo Katz, and Crime, Guilt, and Punishment: A Philosophical Introduction by C.L. Ten
Troubling Questions: A Review Of The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Sheldon L. Messinger
Troubling Questions: A Review Of The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Sheldon L. Messinger
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose by Francis A. Allen
Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert
Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert
Michigan Law Review
The controversy over the death penalty has generated arguments of two types. The first argument appeals to moral intuitions; the second concerns deterrence. Although both types of argument speak to the morality of systems of capital punishment, the first debate has been dominated by moral philosophers and the second by empirical social scientists. For convenience I shall at times refer to the approach of the moral philosophers as the moral case for (or against) capital punishment or as the argument from morality.
Bayne: Conscience, Obligation, And The Law, E. F. Roberts
Bayne: Conscience, Obligation, And The Law, E. F. Roberts
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Conscience, Obligation, and the Law by David Cowan Bayne