Responsibility in Law and Morality

by Peter Cane

Overview

This book adopts a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality and in doing so challenges the common view that morality stands to law as a critical standard to conventional practice. This book is new in paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841134000
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

For 20 years, Peter Cane taught law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Since 1997 he has been a Professor of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Editorial Reviews

"...an impressive and comprehensive discussion of the treatment of responsibility in the law-a discussion that ranges across nearly every field of law, and across jurisdictions, supported by detailed references to cases and supplemented by knowledgeable summaries of commentary by lawyers, legal philosophers, and moral philosophers." --Ethics

"Peter Cane has written an impressively wide-ranging and illuminating booka truly commendable piece of work. Cane's book deserves a large audience among legal, moral, and political philosophers." --Philosophical Review

"...it offers a notably clear and robust formulation of a social approach towards responsibility... he has plenty of interesting and illuminating insights to offer...lawyers and philosphers alike will learn a great deal from this careful dissection of topics..." --Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 26, No 3, pp 593-608

"This is a wide-ranging, highly sophisticated work which looks at concepts of responsibility in law across a range of areas." --Adelaide Law Review

"'Responsibility in Law and Morality' is a challenging and valuable book.

Although I have criticised Cane's account of responsibilty in this review, I do not wish to leave the reader with the impression that his book is anything but valuable and rewarding it is an illuminating study of responsibilty in law. It is my view that modern lawyers have a great deal to learn from its approach. Accordingly, apart from being essential reading for anyone interested in legal theory, the book has much to teach any lawyer with even the smallest interest in the justifications of legal liability." --Melbourne University Law Review

From the Publisher

Continuing his study of the relationship between law and morality, Cane (law, Australian National U.) reflects on the relationship between legal reasoning and moral reasoning, and between philosophy and law as academic disciplines. Among his topics are the nature of vicarious liability and the impact of liability insurance on tort law. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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