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Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society, And Critical Thinking

By Michael Head , Scott Mann

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0868408344, 9780868408347, 9781423790037
Open Library ID
OL8331724M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2178643 bytes)
Pages
421\426
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Law in Perspective is intended to encourage critical, responsible, and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution. Written partly as a textbook for first-year law students, it explores the relationships between law, logic, and science; examines the socio-economic role of law; and asks what role the legal system plays in alleviating or exacerbating contemporary social problems, such as crime and punishment, terrorism, regees and tort law reform. To place law in its historical, philosophical, economic, political and social contexts, Michael Head and Scott Mann focus upon a range of powerful critical thinking tools in the form of ideas and techniques drawn from logic, science, ethics, and political and social theory.

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