The Moral Limits of Law
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The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy

The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy


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The Moral Limits of Law analyses the related debates concerning the moral obligation to obey the law, conscientious citizenship, and state legitimacy. Modern societies are drawn in a tension between the centripetal pull of the local and the centrifugal stress of the global. Boundaries that once appeared permanent are now permeable: transnational legal, economic, and trade institutions increasingly erode the autonomy of states. Nonetheless transnational principles are still typically effected through state law. For law's subjects, this tension brings into focus the interaction of legal and moral obligations and the legitimacy of state authority. This volume incorporates a comprehensive critical analysis of the methodology and substance of the debates in recent legal, political, and moral philosophy, regarding political obligation and the moral obligation to obey the law. The author argues that traditional accounts of political obligation that assume a bounded conception of the polity are no longer tenable. Higgins therefore presents an original theory of the conscientious agent's attitude towards law that accommodates the contemporary social tension between local and global obligations.

Table of Contents:
Preface 1: The Problem of Conscientious Obedience 2: Respect for Persons and Law 3: Consent, Residence, and the Democratic Voice 4: Community, Identity, and Joint Commitment 5: The Burdens of Benefit 6: Benevolence and Gratitude 7: The Implications of Respect Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ruth C. A. Higgins graduated with first class honours in law from Glasgow University in 1995, as joint winner of the Dr John MacCormick Prize for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Law and winner of the Bennet Miller Prize for Private Law. Between 1996 and 2000, she undertook her DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, on a Snell Scholarship. During this time she held a lectureship in law at Corpus Christi College and spent time as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. She currently works in the Competition & Regulation department of the Sydney law firm Gilbert + Tobin.

Review :
`There is much of value in this volume for the philosopher trying to understand the nature of the obligation to obey the law within the modern polity. The extended discussions of theorists such as Dworkin, Green, Soper and Rawls in the later chapters are insightful and useful. Higgins manages to produce a fascinating and provoking account of obedience...' Sean Coyle, The Cambridge Law Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199265671
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199265674
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2004
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 602 gr


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