Justice accused : antislavery and the judicial process /

"What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America""--Amazon

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cover, Robert M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975.
Temas:
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Judicial process > United States > History.
Natural law.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Droit naturel.
LAW > Constitutional.
Judicial process
Natural law
Slavery > Law and legislation
Sklaverei
Recht
Slavernij.
Abolitionisme.
Gerechtigheid.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude : of creon and Captain Vere
  • 1. The intellectual tradition : slavery, natural law, and judicial positivism in the eighteenth century
  • Pt. 1: Nature tamed
  • 2. Natural right in legislation
  • 3. Judicial construction of a natural law text : the "free and equal" clauses
  • 4. Statutory interpretation : In favorem libertatis?
  • Conflict of laws
  • Perspectives from international law
  • Pt. 2: Rules, roles, and rebels : nature's place disputed
  • 7. Some paradigms of judicial rhetoric
  • 8. Formal assumptions of the judiciary
  • 9. Formal assumptions of the antislavery forces
  • 10. Positivism established : the Fugitive Slave Law to 1850
  • 11. Positivism and crisis : the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1859
  • Pt. 3: The moral-formal dilemma
  • 12. Context for conscience
  • 13. Judicial responses.

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