The Uses of Discretion

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-825950-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

Reihe: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies

Discretion is a pervasive phenomenon in legal systems. It is of concern to lawyers because it can be a force for justice or injustice: at once a means of advancing the broad purposes of law and of subventing them. For social scientists the discretion exercised by legal actors is an important form of decision-making behaviour, in which legal rules are merely one force in a field of pressures and constraints that push towards certain courses of action or inaction. This book presents a variety of analyses of legal discretion by lawyers and social scientists (drawn from both sides of the Atlantic), who have made discretion and its uses a central part of their scholarly concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawkins

Hawkins, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik