Author: W. Wesley Pue
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Butterworth
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Ken Binmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198039646
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral philosophy that relied on vague notion such as " societal well-being" and "moral duty," Binmore begins with individuals; rational decision-makers with the ability to empathize with one another. Any social arrangement that prescribes them to act against their interests will become unstable and eventually will be replaced by another, until one is found that includes worthwhile actions for all individuals involved.

Author: John Alder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Canada
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Desmond J. Hewitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative courts
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: R. H. Helmholz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674504615
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God’s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory, surprisingly little has been said about how it has shaped legal practice. Natural Law in Court asks how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in England, Europe, and the United States, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the American Civil War. R. H. Helmholz sees a remarkable consistency in how English, Continental, and early American jurisprudence understood and applied natural law in cases ranging from family law and inheritance to criminal and commercial law. Despite differences in their judicial systems, natural law was treated across the board as the source of positive law, not its rival. The idea that no person should be condemned without a day in court, or that penalties should be proportional to the crime committed, or that self-preservation confers the right to protect oneself against attacks are valuable legal rules that originate in natural law. From a historical perspective, Helmholz concludes, natural law has advanced the cause of justice.

Author: Canada
Publisher: Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School, 1985. (Toronto : CNIB)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Consolidated as of April 17, 1982.

Author: George Duke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715703X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This book offers a systematic exposition of Aristotle's legal thought and account of the relationship between law and politics.

Author: Colton Fehr
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774867698
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Constitutionalizing Criminal Law calls for an overhaul of the way the Supreme Court has developed the relationship between criminal and constitutional law. The court has relied heavily on its power to constitutionalize principles of “fundamental justice” under section 7 of the Charter. In so doing, it employs both principles of criminal law theory and instrumental rationality. The court less frequently invokes enumerated Charter rights when striking down criminal laws. This book persuasively argues that the court should abandon the use of instrumental rationality and constitutionalize principles of criminal law theory only when an unjust criminal law cannot be struck down using an enumerated right.

Author: Jerome Edmund Bickenbach
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
ISBN: 9780921149774
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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