All ebooks by Jonathan Herring in PDF and EPUB
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All ebooks by Jonathan Herring in PDF and EPUB


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Download this eBook The Law as a Moral Agent
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The Law as a Moral Agent


Charles Foster , Jonathan Herring


This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better. It surveys a number of domains, including criminal law, tort law, contract law, family law, and...

Publication date: 2021-03-30
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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£54,99
Download this eBook Human Thriving and the Law
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Human Thriving and the Law


Charles Foster , Jonathan Herring


The idea of the Good Life – of what constitutes human thriving, is, implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law.The law exists to hold societies together; to hold in tension the rights of individuals as against individuals, the rights of individuals as...

Publication date: 2018-10-03
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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£44,99
Download this eBook Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law
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Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law


Jonathan Herring


This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat adults and children in the same way as the child liberationists claim. However, the basis of that...

Publication date: 2018-04-05
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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£43,99
Download this eBook Identity, Personhood and the Law
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Identity, Personhood and the Law


Charles Foster , Jonathan Herring


This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ‘human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ‘human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human...

Publication date: 2017-03-14
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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£49,99
Download this eBook Altruism, Welfare and the Law
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Altruism, Welfare and the Law


Charles Foster , Jonathan Herring


This book is an assault on the notion that it is empirically accurate and legally and philosophically satisfactory to see humans as atomistic entities. It contends that our welfare is inextricably entangled with that of others, and accordingly law and ethics, in...

Publication date: 2015-07-16
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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£44,99
Download this eBook Relational Autonomy and Family Law
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Relational Autonomy and Family Law


Jonathan Herring


This book explores the importance of autonomy in family law. It argues that traditional understandings of autonomy are inappropriate in the family law context and instead recommends the use of relational autonomy. The book starts by explaining how autonomy has...

Publication date: 2014-03-11
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: SpringerBriefs in Law
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