Download or read book Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor written by R. George Wright and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider the horror we feel when we learn of a crime such as that committed by Robert Alton Harris, who commandeered a car, killed the two teenage boys in it, and then finished what was left of their lunch. What we don't consider in our reaction to the depravity of this act is that, whether we morally blame him or not, Robert Alton Harris has led a life almost unimaginably different from our own in crucial respects. In Does Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?, author R. George Wright argues that while the poor live in the same world as the rest of us, their world is crucially different. The law does not recognize this difference, however, and proves to be inconsistent by excusing the trespasses of persons fleeing unexpected storms, but not those of the involuntarily homeless. He persuasively concludes that we can reject crude environmental determinism without holding the most deprived to unreasonable standards.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book The Enforcement of Morals written by Patrick Devlin and published by Amagi Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are morals always relative? Are private actions--among consenting adults-- always beyond the law? Or are there some behaviors which so weaken a society that common beliefs about right and wrong must be enforced to protect the common good? In opposing the decriminalization of private acts of homosexuality in Britain, Patrick Devlin maintained that not only is it reasonable to allow popular morality to influence lawmaking, it is imperative: " . . . For a society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought." Today, as divisive issues such as same-sex marriage and "don't ask, don't tell" confront our legislative, judicial, and executive branches, the views expressed by Devlin in The Enforcement of Morals resonate and reverberate anew. Patrick Devlin (1905-1992) studied history and law at Cambridge University and became a successful lawyer.
Download or read book Moral Imperialism written by Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-10-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the controversy over female genital mutilation, Congress was quick to condemn practices throughout Africa and the Middle East and to take action criminalizing the practice domestically. Moral Imperialism sets out to bring an international human rights framework to the analysis of current international and domestic legal, political, and cultural crises.
Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right who owes what to the very poor written by Pogge, Thomas and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.
Download or read book The Morality of Law written by Lon Luvois Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Rage Confronts the Law written by Paul Harris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris, creator of the black rage defense, traces its origin. Emphasizing that the black rage defense must be enlisted responsibly and selectively, he skillfully distinguishes between applying an environmental defense and simply blaming society in the abstract for individual crimes. He also addresses the possibilities of a white rage defense and the more recent phenomenon of cultural defenses. He illustrates how a person's environment can and does affect his or her life and actions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Success Without Victory written by Jules Lobel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible.
Download or read book The Book of Leviticus written by Samuel Henry Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Law written by Wendell Oliver Holmes, Jr and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states including torts property contracts and crime written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law.
Download or read book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy written by William Paley and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflicts of Law and Morality written by Kent Greenawalt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.
Download or read book The Concept of Law lex in the Moral and Political Thought of the School of Salamanca written by Danaë Simmermacher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on the moral and political philosophy of the ‘School of Salamanca’ has either long been emphasizing the discontinuity between medieval and modern philosophy and the way this discontinuity is represented in the works of these authors or discussing issues of moral justification that are often seen as the heart of early modern practical philosophy. This volume offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the concept of law. This allows for an in-depth analysis of a variety of normative issues in the authors’ moral and political thought. It also suggest a more continuous picture of the transition from medieval to modern philosophy and proposes a more nuanced view of the importance of political concepts in the authors’s practical philosophy.
Download or read book Contract Law and Social Morality written by Peter M. Gerhart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people in a relationship disagree about their obligations to each other, they need to rely on a method of reasoning that allows the relationship to flourish while advancing each person's private projects. This book presents a method of reasoning that reflects how people reason through disagreements and how courts create doctrine by reasoning about the obligations arising from the relationship. Built on the ideal of the other-regarding person, Contract Law and Social Morality displays a method of reasoning that allows one person to integrate their personal interests with the interests of another, determining how divergent interests can be balanced against each other. Called values-balancing reasoning, this methodology makes transparent the values at stake in a disagreement, and provides a neutral and objective way to identify and evaluate the trade-offs that are required if the relationship is to be sustained or terminated justly.
Download or read book The Expositor s Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exposition of the Bible written by Marcus Dods and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Poverty Law written by Lucy Williams and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new framework for the future theoretical development of international poverty law. It explores specific human rights initiatives that address particular aspects of poverty, including human rights conventions, the right to food as framed in UN development documents, and the development in South Africa of an alternative vision of constitutional law.
