Appeal to the People's Court

Rethinking Law, Judging, and Punishment
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36385-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 318, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Jurisprudence

In Appeal to the People’s Court: Rethinking Law, Judging, and Punishment, Vincent Luizzi turns to the goings on in courts at the lowest level of adjudication for fresh insights for rethinking these basic features of the legal order. In the pragmatic tradition of turning from fixed and unchanging conceptions, the work rejects the view of law as a set of black and white rules, of judging as the mechanical application of law to facts, and of punishment as a necessary, punitive response to crime. The author, a municipal judge and philosophy professor, joins theory and practice to feature the citizen in rethinking these institutions. The work includes a foreword by Richard Hull, special Guest Editor for this volume in Studies in Jurisprudence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luizzi, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword
Richard T. Hull
Preface

Introduction: People’s Courts and Legal Philosophy

1 Spotlight on People’s Courts

2 Law

3 Judging

4 Punishment

Conclusion

References
About the Author
Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Luizzi, Ph.D. (1973), University of Pennsylvania; J.D. (1976), Boston University, is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University and a municipal judge in San Marcos. Appeal to the People’s Court is his sequel to A Case for Legal Ethics (SUNY Press, 1993).