Law and objectivity:

Greenawalt begins by considering skeptical views about the meaning of language. Inquiring into the language of legal standards and whether it can yield correct answers to legal problems, he explores how the language of authoritative standards can indicate a single correct resolution in some cases, b...

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Beteilige Person: Greenawalt, Kent 1936- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Pr. 1992
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Zusammenfassung:Greenawalt begins by considering skeptical views about the meaning of language. Inquiring into the language of legal standards and whether it can yield correct answers to legal problems, he explores how the language of authoritative standards can indicate a single correct resolution in some cases, but not in others
The book's second part considers the ways in which the substance of the law may be more or less objective. One critical problem examined here concerns reliance on "objective" standards of "reasonable people," or standards that rely on particular characteristics of individuals. A second problem is whether standards of law treat various groups fairly
Abstract:Is law "objective?" Should law be objective? These questions continue to generate argument and confusion. In this book, Kent Greenawalt clarifies the different senses in which law might be objective, and examines claims that it is so
Umfang:X, 288 S.
ISBN:019506741X