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Law's Judgement (Hardcover)
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Law's Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary
law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as
morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is
the abstract nature of law's judgement and its three components
show that, when law judges us, it often does so in ignorance of our
particular characters and abilities, on the one hand, and in
ignorance of our context and circumstances, on the other. Law's
judgement is thus insensitive to all or much that makes us the
particular people we are. The book explores various connections
between this mode of judgement and some of our most important legal
and political values. It shows that law's abstract judgement is
closely related to important juristic conceptions of personhood,
responsibility and impartiality, and that these notions are not
without moral significance. The book also examines the connections
between modern law's judgement and three of our most important
political values, namely, dignity, equality and community. It
argues that, if we value particular conceptions of dignity,
equality and community, then we must also value law's judgement.
Illuminating these connections therefore serves a double purpose:
first, it makes a case against those who counsel liberation from
law's abstract judgement and, second, it redirects attention to the
task of morally evaluating law's abstract judgement in its own
terms.
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