Law & the Beautiful Soul (Paperback, New)

Arguing that the relationship between ethical judgment and legal justice is fundamentally social. Law and the Beautiful Soul thus cuts through the rigid polarity that counterposes the ethical as autonomous to sociolegal explorations of context and history - not to mention the abstract ethics of 'the Other' that so absorbs postmodern legalism. In making his case Professor Norrie demonstrates how seemingly technical legal issues can be related to wider questions about the nature of law and society. This book is relevant to academics and students interested in criminal law; jurisprudence and theories of justice; and critical. sociolegal and orthodox legal theory.