Abstract
In this book I offer a theory of justice and law. They are not the same. If they were, then the politics which determines power would also govern morality. It doesn’t; if only because there is a distinction between enforcing the law and administering justice. As Lord Denning has observed, the judge aims at “preventing a party from insisting upon his full legal rights, when it would be unjust to follow him to enforce them.”1
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Abstract Theory Pure Theory Empirical Generalization Metaphysical Theory Ivory Tower
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Reference
- 1.Roscoe Pound, Justice According to Law (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951), p. 47 f.Google Scholar
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© Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985