Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 322 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300017898
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0300032528
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0300161956
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9780300017892
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9780300032529
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9780300161953
Content:
"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
Content:
CHAPTER ONE:The Intellectual Tradition: Slavery, Natural Law, and Judicial Positivism in the Eighteenth Century -- PART I:NATURE TAMED -- CHAPTER TWO:Natural Right in Legislation -- CHAPTER THREE:Judicial Construction of a Natural Law Text: The "Free and Equal" Clauses -- CHAPTER FOUR:Statutory Interpretation: "In Favorem Libertatis?" -- CHAPTER FIVE:Conflict of Laws -- CHAPTER SIX:Perspectives from International Law -- PART II:RULES, ROLES, AND REBELS:NATURE'S PLACE DISPUTED -- CHAPTER SEVEN:Some Paradigms of Judicial Rhetoric -- CHAPTER EIGHT:Formal Assumptions of the Judiciary -- CHAPTER NINE:Formal Assumptions of the Antislavery Forces -- CHAPTER TEN:Positivism Established: The Fugitive Slave Law to 1850 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN:Positivism and Crisis: The Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1859 -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART II -- PART III:THE MORAL-FORMAL DILEMMA -- INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- CHAPTER TWELVE:Context for Conscience -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN:Judicial Responses -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART III -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cover, Robert M Justice accused
Language:
English
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