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Moral Aspects of Legal Theory - Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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Moral Aspects of Legal Theory - Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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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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