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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, refugees 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.
Law in Perspective provides an accessible, concise and practical introduction to the fundamental ideas of
• good and bad reasoning
• scientific- method
• ethical theories and concepts
• politics and political economy
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Contents
Section One - Logic, Science and Law
Chapter 1. Basic concepts of logical reasoning
Chapter 2. Legal reasoning
Chapter 3. Formal fallacies and fallacies of relevance
Chapter 4. Weak induction and presumption
Chapter 5. Science and statistics
Chapter 6. Causation and the precautionary principle
Chapter 7. Theoretical hypotheses
Section Two - Ethics, Social Theory and Law
Chapter 8. Metaethics, rights and equality
Chapter 9. Normative ethics
Chapter 10. Natural law and legal positivism
Chapter 11. Liberalism
Chapter 12. Marxism and law
Chapter 13. Efficiency and the market
Chapter 14. Regulating the market
Chapter 15. Is the Market Just?
Chapter 16. Inheritance and returns to assets
Section Three - Law and Contemporary Social Problems
Chapter 17. Tort Law reform
Chapter 18. Freedom of the will and Criminal Culpability
Chapter 19. Crime and Punishment
Chapter 20. Terrorism and democratic rights
Chapter 21. Refugees and the nation-state
Notes
Index
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