Multidisciplinary, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Responses to the CatholicNatural Law Tradition
The best contemporary English-language resource on pursuing a universal ethics In this volume twenty-three major scholars comment on and critically evaluate In Search of a Universal Ethic, the 2009 document written by the International Theological Commission (ITC) of the Catholic Church. That historic document represents an official Church ......
Liberty and Law examines a previously underappreciated theme in legal history - the idea of permissive natural law. The idea is mentioned only peripherally, if at all, in modern histories of natural law. Yet it engaged the attention of jurists, philosophers, and theologians over a long period and formed an integral part of their teachings. This ......
Law Enforcement Ethicsais an attempt to be at the forefront of engaging in the conversation about the future of law enforcement ethics, while examining many of the classic, enduring challenges posed by the profession itself. The conversation explores a host of foundational issues that include who should be hired as a law enforcement officer; what training should look like during the basic academy, as well as over the span of oneAEs career; common ethical challenges, such as force and interrogations; what an ethical promotional process should entail; international best practices and problems; psychology of marginality; role of the media in promoting accountability; and the roles played by social learning, sub-culture, organizational policies, and PTSD in misconduct. 1. Each of the bookAEs 18 chapters explores some major theoretical aspect of law enforcement ethics, while offering practical advice on what law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal level can do to create more ethical organizations.2. The contributing authors include not only academicians but clinical psychologists, professionals trainers, accreditation consultants, ethicists, medical professionals, and law enforcement supervisors and administrators representing a broad cross-section of agencies.3. Rather than relying on a single theoretical framework or discipline (e.g., sociology or criminology), the book takes an interdisciplinary look at the phenomenon of law enforcement ethics by offering contributions from authors in the fields of clinical psychology, medicine, criminology, criminal justice, law, ethics, organizational leadership, sociology, and public policy.4. Chapters begin with an opening vignetter or case study to help motivate the content to come.5. Chapters will conclude with summaries and 4-5 discussion questions.
Reflections on the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory
Invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. It features conversations with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions to American legal theory, and more.
Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of disarray and has been for some time. This work contends that both hard originalism and neutrality are illusory in religion clause jurisprudence.
Contains articles on the connection between morality and the law by such thinkers as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cass R Sunstein, and others. This book focuses on issues of morality and lawyering by looking at such questions as how lawyers should represent clients with whom they disagree ethically and how defence lawyers can represent guilty clients.
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America
Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” ......
Offers a critical analysis of the sense of justice: an overused concept in modern legal and political discourse. This work argues against simple categorization of the sense of justice. It defines the sense of justice in terms of empathy. It also explores the way it is invoked, considered, and used in the American criminal justice system.
