Responsibility in Law and Morality

by Peter Cane

Book Overview

Lawyers who write about responsibility tend to focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law; while philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept, and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart. This book aims to counteract both of these biases. By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841134007
• ISBN13: 9781841134000
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"