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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Faces Of Virtue In Law by Edited by Amalia Amaya , Edited by Claudio Michelon
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._x000D_
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The contributions address the three main axes along which virtue jurisprudence has unfolded in the past decades: the quest to provide a suitable virtue-based foundation for the law (in general) or for some aspects of it (in particular, but not exclusively, criminal law); the investigation of the role played by character traits in legal decision-making; and the investigation of how the law can be part of a virtuous life. As will become apparent for readers of this volume, those lines are converging and, as they do so, a general virtue-based approach to the study of law is starting to emerge._x000D_
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