Law's Task
Taylor & Francis

Law's Task - Hardback

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Law, Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
ISBN13: 9780754671329
Published: 01 Oct 2008

Format - Hardback
By Louis E. Wolcher

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Law's Task - Hardback

Regular price A$244.00
Sale price A$244.00 Regular price A$305.00
Product description

What is the ultimate task of law? This deceptively simple question guides this volume towards a radically original philosophical interpretation of law and justice. Weaving together the philosophical, jurisprudential and ethical problems suggested by five general terms - thinking, human suffering, legal meaning, time and tragedy - the book places the idea of law's ultimate task in the context of what actually happens when people seek to do justice and enforce legal rights in a world that is inflected by the desperation and suffering of the many. It traces the rule of law all the way down to its most fundamental level: the existence of universal human suffering and how it is that law-doers inflict or tolerate that suffering.

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