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Overview
Lawyers who write about responsibility focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law. 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, it challenges the common view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how careful study of legal concepts of responsibility can add significantly to our understanding of responsibility more generally.Synopsis
This book adopts a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality and in doing so challenges the common view that morality stands to law as a critical standard to conventional practice. This book is new in paperback.
Booknews
Continuing his study of the relationship between law and morality, Cane (law, Australian National U.) reflects on the relationship between legal reasoning and moral reasoning, and between philosophy and law as academic disciplines. Among his topics are the nature of vicarious liability and the impact of liability insurance on tort law. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)