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List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Rethinking the Rule of Law; Revitalizing Rights; on Formal Equality; Conclusion: the Progressive Idea of Law; Select Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Robin L. West, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA.
Summary
This title was first published in 2003. Resurrecting the neglected question of what we mean by legal justice, this book seeks to re-imagine rather than simply critique our contemporary notions of the rule of law, rights and legal equality.
This work of reconstruction offers a progressive and egalitarian approach to concepts that have become overly associated with the idea of limited government and social conservatism. Focusing on the necessary conditions of co-operative community life, this book presents a vision of law that facilitates rather than frustrates politics, an analysis of rights that boosts our capacities for caring, and an idea of equality that captures a cosmopolitan vision based on the recognition of shared humanity.
