Constituting law : legal argument and social values
"Legal argument involves a search for reasons which resonate. These reasons are often derived from various sources other than domestic legal principles, sources which include history, morality, economics, philosophy, psychology, human rights discourse and international legal or commercial thoug...
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Annandale, N.S.W. :
Federation Press ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Law, values, and the advocate
- 2. Contingency, law, and the practice of value
- 3. Law and the use of history
- 4. New frontiers of legal history
- 5. Developing the common law
- 6. Bacon's chickens ? : Re-thinking law and science (and incriminating expert opinion evidence) in response to empirical evidence and legal principle
- 7. Law, economics, and interdisciplinary indeterminacy
- 8. Policy tools for reduction of CO2 emissions briefly compared
- 9. Law and uses of international thought
- 10. International influences on domestic law : neither jingoistic exceptionalism nor blind servility
- 11. The law merchant: how we came to where we are
- 12. Between the parochial and the cosmopolitan
- 13. Human rights past, present and future
- 14. Who's afraid of unelected judges? a positive case for increasing the judicial role in human rights protection