ABSTRACT
Starting from concrete legal issues, Alan Norrie develops a critical vision of law in its relation to morality and socio-historical context. Traced historically, the conflicts he describes can be read today in law's treatment of legality and justice, judgment and responsibility.
Joint winner of the Hart / Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize 2006.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 Legal Antinomies in History
chapter 3|6 pages
From Law to Popular Justice: Beyond Antinomialism
Popular justice: in search of a concept
part |2 pages
Part 2 Justice and Judgment
chapter 5|13 pages
The Limits of Justice: Finding Fault in the Criminal Law
Introduction: challenging the ‘penal equation’
part |2 pages
Part 3 Law, History and Ethics: The Nature of Critique
