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Author | : Larry May |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191505277 |
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Thomas Hobbes wrote extensively about law and was strongly influenced by developments and debates among lawyers of his day. And Hobbes is considered by many commentators to be one of the first legal positivists. Yet there is no book in English that focuses on Hobbes's legal philosophy. Indeed, Hobbes's own book length treatment of law, A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, has also not received much commentary over the centuries. Larry May seeks to fill the gap in the literature by addressing Hobbes's legal philosophy directly, and comparing Leviathan to the Dialogue, as he offers a new interpretation of Hobbes's views about the connections among law, politics, and morality. May argues that Hobbes is much more amenable to moral, and even legal, limits on the law—indeed closer to Lon Fuller than to today's legal positivists—than he is often portrayed. He shows that Hobbes's views can provide a solid grounding for the rules of war and international relations generally, contrary to the near universal belief that Hobbes is the bête noir of international law. To support these views, May holds that Hobbes places greater weight on equity than on justice, and that understanding the role of equity is the key to his legal philosophy. Equity also is the moral concept that provides restrictions on what a sovereign can legitimately do, and if violated is the kind of limitation on sovereignty that could open the door for possible international institutions.
Author | : Larry May |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199682798 |
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Thomas Hobbes wrote extensively about law, was strongly influenced by legal debates, and is considered by many to be one of the first legal positivists. Larry May presents the first book in English on Hobbes's legal philosophy, offering a new interpretation of Hobbes's views about the connections among law, politics, and morality.
Author | : Donald P. Racheter |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Examines the relationship between the American people and their government. The authors analyse the case for limiting governmental power and discuss such limits in terms of tax, regulatory limits, and electoral, congressional term and constitutional limits. They also look at auxiliary areas.
Author | : James M. Buchanan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226078205 |
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"The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."—Scott Gordon, Journal of Political Economy James Buchanan offers a strikingly innovative approach to a pervasive problem of social philosophy. The problem is one of the classic paradoxes concerning man's freedom in society: in order to protect individual freedom, the state must restrict each person's right to act. Employing the techniques of modern economic analysis, Professor Buchanan reveals the conceptual basis of an individual's social rights by examining the evolution and development of these rights out of presocial conditions.
Author | : Cass R. Sunstein |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674247531 |
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From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.
Author | : Thomas Hobbes |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 048612214X |
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Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author | : Maldwyn Allen Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A history of America between the years 1607 and 1980.
Author | : Robert E. Scott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2006-08-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139460285 |
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Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the most promising means of promoting cooperation and where it does not. In particular, it looks at the International Criminal Court, the rules for world trade, efforts to enlist domestic courts to enforce orders of the International Court of Justice, domestic judicial enforcement of the Geneva Convention, the domain of international commercial agreements, and the question of odious debt incurred by sovereigns. This book explains how international law, like contract, depends largely on the willingness of responsible parties to make commitments.
Author | : Yochai Benkler |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Altruism |
ISBN | : 0385525761 |
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Author | : Jeffrey R. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108478816 |
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Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.