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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Laws Judgement by Professor William Lucy
Laws Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of laws judgement and its three components show that when law judges us it often does so in ignorance of our particular characters and abilities on the one hand and in ignorance of our context and circumstances on the other. Laws judgement is thus insensitive to all or much that makes us the particular people we are. The book explores various connections between this mode of judgement and some of our most important legal and political values. It shows that laws abstract judgement is closely related to important juristic conceptions of personhood responsibility and impartiality and that these notions are not without moral significance. The book also examines the connections between modern laws judgement and three of our most important political values namely dignity equality and community. It argues that if we value particular conceptions of dignity equality and community then we must also value laws judgement. Illuminating these connections therefore serves a double purpose: first it makes a case against those who counsel liberation from laws abstract judgement and second it redirects attention to the task of morally evaluating laws abstract judgement in its own terms.show more