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Zusatztext ...the essays are thoughtful! careful! and lucid...Oxford Essays in Jurisprudecne!!!especially merits the attemtion of people who engage in teaching or research relating to the philosophy of private law. Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Horder is Fellow and Tutor in Law and University Reader in Criminal Law at Worcester College, Oxford Klappentext The fourth collection of essays in this long-established series brings together some of the leading contributors to the study of the philosophical foundations of common law. Key issues in contract, tort, and criminal law are subjected to philosophical scrutiny, the aim being to provide an exciting new basis for advanced teaching and further research. Zusammenfassung The fourth collection of essays in this long-established series brings together some of the leading contributors to Oxford's course on the Philosophical Foundations of Common Law for the Bachelor of Civil Law. Key issues in contract, tort, and criminal law are subjected to philosophical scrutiny, as well as concerns, such as the significance of personhood (both natural and corporate) in law and legal theory. The aim of the book, like the aim of the course, is to make a major contribution to thinking about the common law, which can provide an exciting new basis for advanced teaching and further research. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: John Finnis: The Priority of Persons 2: Nicola Lacey: Philosophical Foundations of Common Law 3: Peter Cane: Consequences in Judicial Reasoning 4: Jane Stapleton: Perspectives in Causation 5: Andrew Simester: Can Negligence be Culpable? 6: Stephen Smith: Towards a Theory of Contract 7: Roderick Bagshaw: Inducing Breach of Contract 8: Timothy Endicott: Incomplete Agreements 9: Jeremy Horder: The Irrelevance of Motive in Criminal Law 10: John Gardner and Stephen Shute: The Wrongness of Rape 11: Nicholas McBride: Conceptual Foundations of Tort law 12: Stephen Perry: Collective v. Distributive Justice ...
