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Review Of Justice Without Law?, Whitmore Gray
Review Of Justice Without Law?, Whitmore Gray
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The title of this book refers to the stiving of communities of various types in different circumstances to develop "patterns of conflict resolution that reflected their common striving for social harmony beyond individual conflict, for justice without law." The author wants to document what he calls the search through three and a half centuries of American history for "justice beyond law, without lawyers or courts." Readers familiar with Auerbach's earlier book, Unequal Justice (62 A.B.A.J. 838 (1976)), will correctly assume that this is not a sympathetic view of the influence of bar and bench on the development of alternatives to …
Legal Theory And The Problem Of Definition, Philip E. Soper
Legal Theory And The Problem Of Definition, Philip E. Soper
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Natural Law and Natural Rights is a refreshingly direct book about some decidedly difficult matters. It is also a book that refuses to do homage to the complexity of its subject by limiting the topics covered. Here is virtually a mini-treatise in moral philosophy, with illuminating discussions on the whole range of human value and on a good part of the related range of metaethics, legal theory, political theory, and the problems of methodology in the descriptive social sciences.
Review Of Social Justice In The Liberal State, Donald H. Regan
Review Of Social Justice In The Liberal State, Donald H. Regan
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Bruce Ackerman's goal, in Social Justice in the Liberal State, is to provide a new foundation for liberal political theory. Ackerman is dissatisfied with both utilitarian and contractarian defenses of liberal political institutions. Indeed, he writes most persuasively when he is criticizing utilitarians and contractarians, though his criticisms are largely familiar.