Why lawyers derail justice : probing the roots of legal injustices / John C. Anderson.
1999
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Title
Why lawyers derail justice : probing the roots of legal injustices / John C. Anderson.
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1999]
Copyright
©1999
Call Number
KF384 .A85 1999
ISBN
0271018429 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0271018437 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0271018437 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Description
xii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)38862561
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-230) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prelude
1
1
The Split Between Legal Language and Common Sense
5
1Legal Injustices Arising from Manipulation, Misuse, or Expansion of the Criminal Law
10
2Injustices Arising from Formalism and Impartiality
16
3Injustices Arising from Law's Expansion into Private Sector
20
4Inflexibility, Moral Neutrality, and Harshness of Legalistic Egalitarianism
22
5Legalistic Morality
25
2
Dworkin's Interpretative "Community"
31
1The Positivist, Natural Law, and Realist Framework
32
2Introductory Summary of Dworkin's Jurisprudence
46
3Dworkin's Interpretive Method Excludes Teleology
51
4"Fairness" as Responsiveness to Public Opinion
58
5Toward a "Liberal" Redefinition of Justice Reduced to Simple Equality
62
6The Relationship Between Dworkin's Moral Neutrality and His Rigid Egalitarianism
69
7Due Process: An Inadequate Constraint on Law's Coercion
72
8Toward a "Liberal" Redefinition of Community
74
Conclusions
85
3
Kant's Moral Foundations and Legalism
93
1What Is the Nature of a True Kingdom of Ends?
97
2The Problems of Universalizability
108
3The Reducibility of the Kingdom of Ends to the Categorical Imperative
112
4The Diminished Status of Justice and Equity in Kant
113
4
Moving Beyond Law with Aristotle
123
1The Nature of Natural Justice
124
2Ethos, or Custom
146
3Epieikeia
153
5
Abolition of Legal Profession and Other Reforms
199
1Legal Reforms
202
2Political Reforms
206
3Private Reforms
209
4Gradual Timetable for Reforms
212
5Final Reflections
213
Bibliography
221
Index
231