| Description |
xvi, 435 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Applied legal philosophy |
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Applied legal philosophy.
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| Contents |
Part I: Reorienting Legal Positivism. 1. Democratic aspects of ethical positivism / Tom Campbell -- 2. Ethical positivism and the practical force of rules / Neil MacCormick -- 3. Ethical positivism and the liberalism of fear / Martin Krygier -- 4. Feminist perspectives on ethical positivism / Nicola Lacey -- 5. Legal separatism and the concept of the person / Margaret Davies -- 7. Is positivism committed to intentionalism? / Natalie Stoljar -- 8. A perspectival theory of law / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- 9. Legal positivism and the contingent autonomy of law / Frederick Schauer. Part II: Assemblies Versus Courts in Democratic Theory and Practice. 10. The philosophical foundations of parliamentary sovereignty / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- 11. Legislation by assembly / Jeremy Waldron -- 12. Defining judicial restraint / John Daley -- 13. A patchwork quilt theory of constitutional interpretation / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- 14. Citizenship, race and adjuciation / Margaret Thornton -- 15. The vice of judicial activism / Arthur Glass -- 16. The role of law and the role of lawyers / Tim Dare -- 17. Judicial activism and the rule of law in Australia / Leslie Zines -- 18. Judicial activism and judicial review in the High Court of Australia / George Williams |
| Summary |
This collection of essays by a group of leading legal philosophers from the US, the USA and Australasia centres of the juridification of politics through enhancing the entrenched power of judges. The issues are examined in the context of a critique of the revival of legal positivism as a prescriptive political philosophy closely tied to the tradition of parliamentary democracy. The papers originated in an extended workshop held at the Australian National University in 1998 on 'Judicial Activism and Judicial Review in Australian Democracy'. Some of the essays focus on the recent Australian developments with respect to implied constitutional rights and others concentrate on Tom Campbell's legal theory of 'ethical positivism'. The book as a whole presents powerful and conflicting arguments bearing on the global debate about the changing role of judges |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Judicial review -- Philosophy.
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Legal positivism.
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| Author |
Campbell, Tom, 1938-
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Goldsworthy, Jeffrey Denys.
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| LC no. |
99046651 |
| ISBN |
0754620611 |
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