The Value And Purpose Of Law: Essays In Honor Of M.n.s. Sellers (archiv Fur Rechts- Und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte)

This book reveals and discusses the foundations of law and justice. Fifteen leading lawyers and philosophers of law, representing thirteen nations and fifteen different philosophical schools examine the value and purpose of law, and the nature and requirements of law and justice. Some of the world's most learned and provocative legal scholars address the ultimate questions of legal and social philosophy from all angles and the broadest possible perspective, with special reference to the work of Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers, and the republican, liberal, and analytical schools of legal thought. The conclusions reached here are not fully unanimous, congruent or conclusive, but they represent the pinnacle of legal scholarship as it exists today and furnish the necessary basis for any future study of law, justice, or the ultimate requirements of just, effective and legitimate law and society. Table of Contents Contributors Foreword Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers 1 (Joshua Kassner / Colin Starger) Introduction 2 (Richard Bett) The Nature and Purpose of Law in Early Greek Thought 3 (Sanne Taekema) Conversations about the Rule of Law: the Public Interest and Law’s Ideals 4 (Joshua Kassner) An Essay in Defense of a Republican Understanding of the Relationship between Liberty and Law 5 (Marcelo Campos Galuppo) Law and Emotion: How Empathy Forms Judges’ Sense of Justice 6 (Andrés Botero-Bernal) A Short History of the Idea of National Law: The Exception Becomes the Rule 7 (Véronique Champeil-Desplats) Contemporary States of Exception and Rule of Law General considerations from the French State of Emergency November 14th, 2015 – November 1st, 2017 8 (Marijan Pavčnik) Questioning the Moral Understanding of Law 9 (Ricardo Guibourg) On the Nature and Purpose of Law: What Is It That We Study When We Study Law? 10 (Leslie Francis) How Should a Feminist Think about Legal Positivism? 11 (Stephan Kirste) Law as Transformation 12 (Gülriz Uygur) Law and Injustice in Times of Crisis 13 (Matthias Mahlmann) Constitutionalism and the Idea of Law 14 (João Maurício Adeodato) The “Nature” of Law in a Realistic and Rhetorical Philosophy 15 (Pierluigi Chiassoni) Law as Language and Interpretation 16 (Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers) Some Thoughts on the Value and Purpose of Law