The right to do wrong: morality and the limits of law
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Introduction: Defining the Puzzle -- 1. Common Morality, Social Mores, and the Law -- 2. A Sampling of Rights to Do Wrong -- 3. Three Rights to Do Wrong -- 4. How to "Abuse" a Right -- 5. Law and Morality in Ordinar...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Harvard University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Osiel, Mark, The right to do wrong : morality and the limits of law] (2021) (Turner, David)
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| Further subjects: | B
Law and ethics
B Electronic books |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Introduction: Defining the Puzzle -- 1. Common Morality, Social Mores, and the Law -- 2. A Sampling of Rights to Do Wrong -- 3. Three Rights to Do Wrong -- 4. How to "Abuse" a Right -- 5. Law and Morality in Ordinary Language and Social Science -- 6. Divergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 7. Convergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 8. Questions of Method and Meaning: The Law at Odds with Common Morality -- 9. Why This Book Is Not What You Had in Mind -- 10. The Changing Stance of Lawyers toward Common Morality -- 11. Commercial Morality, Bourgeois Virtue, and the Law -- 12. How We Attach Responsibilities to Rights -- 13. Common Morality Confronts Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (513 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0674240197 |