Random Justice - On Lotteries and Legal Decision-Making

Zusatztext Among legal academics! Duxbury's explicit challenge to the supremacy - or hubris - of reason should spark some fireworks. Informationen zum Autor Neil Duxbury is Professor of Law at the University of Manchester Klappentext This controversial book explores the potential for the use of lotteries in social! and particularly legal! decision-making contexts. Utilizing a variety of disciplines and materials! the author considers in detail the history! advantages! and drawbacks of deciding issues of social significance by lot and argues that the value of the lottery as a legal decision-making device has generally been underestimated. The final chapter of the book considers how lotteries mightbe combined with other decision-mechanisms and suggests that it may sometimes be sensible to require that adjudication takes place in the shadow of the lottery. Zusammenfassung Explores the potential for the use of lotteries in social, and particularly legal, decision-making contexts. Utilizing a variety of disciplines and materials, this book considers the history, advantages, and drawbacks of deciding issues of social significance by lot. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Spectre of Chance 2: Contextualizing the Lottery 3: Relying on Luck 4: Dicing with Justice 5: Lotteries Within Legal Frameworks Conclusion Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Neil Duxbury, Neil (Professor of Law Duxbury, Duxbury Neil
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780199253531
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925353-1
• Pages: 192
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit international, droit étranger; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Jurisprudence, Systems of law, Decision theory: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law