1st Edition

The Faces of Virtue in Law

Edited By Amalia Amaya, Claudio Michelon Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book gathers together leading voices in virtue theory—an increasingly influential aspect of legal theory in the 21st century—to take stock of virtue jurisprudence’s evolution and suggest ways in which this approach can be further developed. The contributions address the three main axes along which virtue jurisprudence has unfolded in the past decades: the quest to provide a suitable... Read more

Introduction

Amalia Amaya and Claudio Michelon

1. Virtue as the end of law: an aretaic theory of legislation

Lawrence B Solum

2. Plato on law-abidance and a path to natural law

Julia Annas

3. Can the law help us to be moral?

Kimberley Brownlee and Richard Child

4. Lawfulness and the perception of legal salience

Claudio Michelon

5. Common virtue and the perspectival imagination: Adam Smith and common law reasoning

Maksymilian Del Mar

6. The perceptive judge

Iris van Domselaar

7. Reconciling virtues and action-guidance in legal adjudication

José Juan Moreso

8. The virtue of judicial humility

Amalia Amaya

9. Legal risk, legal evidence and the arithmetic of criminal justice

Duncan Pritchard

10. Legal reasoning, good citizens, and the criminal law

Antony Duff

Biography

Claudio Michelon is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Edinburgh Law School, UK.



Amalia Amaya is British Academy Global Professor at Edinburgh Law School, UK, and Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.