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The Germ of Justice covers the leading problems of contemporary jurisdiction to introduce current conversations surrounding the morality of law in an accessible way. Through the works of Hume, Hart, and others, it addresses the nature of law, relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects.
List of contents
- Law, As Such
- 1: The Concept of Law Revisited
- 2: Law as a Means
- 3: Custom and Convention at the Foundations of Law
- 4: Realism and the Sources of Law
- 5: Feminism in Jurisprudence
- Law and Morality
- 6: The Germ of Justice
- 7: The Inseparability of Law and Morals
- 8: The Morality in Law
- 9: The Role of a Judge
- 10: Should Law Improve Morality?
- The Demands of Law
- 11: Hume on Allegiance
- 12: Associative Obligations and the State
- 13: The Forces of Law
- 14: The Duty to Govern
About the author
Leslie Green was born in Scotland and studied at Queen's University, Canada and at Nuffield College, Oxford. He began teaching at Lincoln College, Oxford before moving to Osgoode Hall Law School. He later returned to Oxford as Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, and to Queen's as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow. He has been a Visiting Professor at Berkeley, Chicago, NYU and Texas - Austin, and delivered named lectures around the world, including the Leon Green Lecture, The Julius Stone Address, the Kadish Lecture, the 'Or 'Emet Lecture, and the Dewey Lecture.
Summary
The Germ of Justice covers the leading problems of contemporary jurisdiction to introduce current conversations surrounding the morality of law in an accessible way. Through the works of Hume, Hart, and others, it addresses the nature of law, relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects.
Additional text
This superb collection of essays in general jurisprudence belongs in every library concerned with the intersection of law and philosophy. The introduction alone is worth the price of admission.
