Research Catalog

Title

Why lawyers derail justice : probing the roots of legal injustices / John C. Anderson.

Author

Anderson, John C. (John Charles), 1954-

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xii, 236 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Justice, Administration of > United States
• Practice of law > United States
• Judicial error > United States
• Law reform > United States
• Justice
• Judicial error
• Justice, Administration of
• Law reform
• Practice of law
• Recht
• Justizirrtum
• Advocatuur
• Rechtspleging
• Strafprocesrecht
• Common sense
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-230) and index.

Contents

1. The split between legal language and common sense -- Legal injustices arising from manipulation, misuse, or expansion of the criminal law -- 2. Injustices arising from formalism and impartiality -- Injustices arising from law's expansion into private sector -- Inflexibility, moral neutrality, andn harshness of legalistic egalitarianism -- Legalistic morality -- 2. Dworkin's interpretative "community" -- The positivist, natural law, and realist framework -- Introductory summary of Dworkin's jurisprudence -- Dworkin's interpretive method excludes teleology -- "Fairness" as responsiveness to public opinion -- Toward a "liberal" redefinition of justice reduced to simple equality -- The relationship between Dworkin's moral neutrality and his rigid egalitariansim -- Due process: An inadequate constraint on law's coercion -- toward a "liberal" redefinition of community -- 3. Kant's moral foundations and legalism -- What is the nature of a true kingdom of ends? -- The problems of universalizability -- The reducibility of the kingdom of ends to the categorical -- The dimished status of justice and equity in Kant -- 4. Moving beyond law with aristotle -- The nature of natural justice -- Ethos, or custom -- Epieikeia -- 5. Abolition of legal profession and other reforms -- 1. Legal reforms -- Political reforms -- Private reforms -- Gradual timetable for reforms -- Final reflectionsThe split between legal language and common sense -- Dworkin's interpretative "community" -- Kant's moral foundations and legalism -- Moving beyond law with Aristotle -- Abolition of legal profession and other reforms.

ISBN

• 0271018429
• 9780271018423
• 0271018437
• 9780271018430

LCCN

98016936

OCLC

• ocm38862561
• 38862561
• SCSB-8978582

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library