The Law as a Moral Agent - Making People Good

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 medical law (particularly the realm of moral enhancement technologies) asking for each: (a) Does the existing law seek to promote personal morality? (b) If so, what is the account of morality promoted, and what is the substantive content? (c) Does it work? and (d) Is this a legitimate objective?

List of contents

Introduction.- Contract and the law of property.- Tort.- Family law.- Criminal law.- Medical law.- Moral enhancement.- Epilogue 

About the author

Charles Foster is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is also a practising barrister.
Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Product details

• Authors: Charle Foster, Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2021
• EAN: 9783030713331
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3071333-1
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 5 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: VII, 92 p.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries