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Merciful judgments and contemporary society : legal problems, legal possibilities /
"This book explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them"-- "Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and problem, for law. Whether one starts from a worry about rules and discretion, about the attitudes of citizens and their leaders, or ways to undo the past, merciful judgments challenge and perplex, just as they help to sustain, our legal system. Charting these possibilities and problems is the work that this book seeks to do. Here we ask what challenges merciful judgments pose for law? When and why do those judgments encourage and nurture legal ingenuity and resourcefulness? When and why do they precipitate crises and breakdowns in legal authority? This book is a product of The University of Alabama School of Law symposia series on "Law, Knowledge & Imagination." This series explores the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and science. In addition, books produced through the Alabama symposia explore various conjunctions of law, knowledge, and imagination as they play out in debates about theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as contemporary issues"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139190886 1139190881 1139185985 9781139185981 9781139188289 1139188283 9781139030656 1139030655 1283384086 9781283384087 1139179837 9781139179836 1107227941 9781107227941 9786613384089 6613384089 1139189581 9781139189583 1139183664 9781139183666 |