Law in Perspective

Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking

By: Michael Head, Scott Mann

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Paperback | 1 August 2005

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Chiefly written as a textbook for first-year university law students, this book encourages critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and as a social institution. It explores the relationships between law, logic and science, examines the socio-economic role of law and asks what role the legal system plays in alleviating or exacerbating contemporary social problems, such as crime and punishment, terrorism, refugees and tort law reform.

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Non-Fiction Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Legal Profession in General Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct Politics & Government Political Ideologies & Movements Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law Law & Society

Basic concepts of logical reasoning	p. 11
Legal reasoning	p. 35
Formal fallacies and fallacies of relevance	p. 49
Weak induction and presumption	p. 61
Science and statistics	p. 76
Causation and the precautionary principle	p. 95
Theoretical hypotheses	p. 116
Metaethics, rights and equality	p. 139
Normative ethics	p. 169
Natural law and legal positivism	p. 181
Liberalism	p. 204
Marxism and law	p. 219
Efficiency and the market	p. 234
Regulating the market	p. 258
Is the market just?	p. 270
Inheritance and returns to assets	p. 284
Tort law reform	p. 301
Freedom of the will and criminal culpability	p. 314
Crime and punishment	p. 338
Terrorism and democratic rights	p. 352
Refugees and the nation-state	p. 370
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