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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 December 2009
      29 January 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511624667
      9780521432443
      9780521438353
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624667
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.478kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.482kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Law, Ethics, Philosophy
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    David Lyons is one of the pre-eminent philosophers of law active in the United States. This volume comprises essays written over a period of twenty years in which Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to morality and justice. The underlying theme of the book is that a system of law has only a tenuous connection with morality and justice. Contrary to those legal theorists who maintain that no matter how bad the law of a community might be, strict conformity to existing law automatically dispenses 'formal' justice, Professor Lyons contends that the law must earn the respect that it demands. Moreover, we cannot, as some would suggest, interpret law in a value-neutral manner. Rather courts should interpret statutes, judicial precedents, and constitutional provisions in terms of values that would justify those laws. In this way officials can promote the justifiability of what they do to people in the name of law, and can help the law live up to its moral pretensions.

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    ‘A rich and diverse collection of important essays by one of this country’s outstanding legal and political philosophers.’

    Jules Coleman - Yale Law School

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