Sentences with phrase «legal philosophers»
Indeed, some legal philosophers have justified punishment on the basis that it is a kindness to offenders to punish them since it permits them to heal.
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Some legal philosophers refer to this as «post-modernism.»
Kennedy's dignity jurisprudence draws on recent work among legal philosophers.
George and Bradley concede that the distinguished legal philosopher Stephen Macedo (among many others) thinks the change is beneficial because he honestly fails to perceive what to them is self - evident.
Legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, for example, says that to interpret a constitutional phrase, «thoughtful judges» must «decide on their own which conception does most credit to the nation.»
R. Kent Greenawalt, a University Professor at Columbia University, is a distinguished legal philosopher who has tried to justify a mild theism without directly challenging the modernist definition of rationality.
The notable legal philosopher turns his keen analytical powers to questions of Scripture.
In a third, Is There Truth in Interpretation, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, delivers a lecture on jurisprudence.
Professor Dworkin's academic work was in many ways a reaction to that of H. L. A. Hart, the British legal philosopher...
Legal philosopher and Oxford and NYU Law Professor Ronald Dworkin died last month.
The New York Review of Books has a series of podcasts online, one of which is of legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin interviewed by Hugh Eakin of the NYRB editorial staff.
Legal philosopher and public intellectual died yesterday: February 14, 2013.
Legal philosopher Frederick Schauer praises the article for «analytic precision, careful argument, useful distinctions, and just the right amount of philosophy».
Not exact matches
Adam Smith, the great moral philosopher and founder of classical economics, tells us that the market requires a moral - legal foundation.
Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer
Lawyers, judges, legal scholars, philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists gathered in September 2003 to discuss the emerging relationship between neuroscience and law.
It is for these reasons that philosopher Martha Nussbaum at the University of Chicago Law School has argued strongly to stop using the «politics of disgust» as a basis for legal judgements.
When asked about the legal writers he most respects, Garner answers, «My own heroes there are Charles Alan Wright, author of Federal Practice and Procedure; I love the writing of Grant Gilmore, the great Yale law professor; and Lon Fuller, the Harvard philosopher of law.»
The NYT provides a more cursory, shallower, look at Dworkin's significance as a legal and moral philosopher and personal history.
Though many philosophers, statesmen, and legal practitioners have opined on the value of free speech and thought, Justice Louis Brandies best captured the value of free speech and thought in our constitutional scheme:
The content of the basket of human rights was not handed down by God, but has developed initially through the writings of philosophers and, more and more, through our domestic and international legal structures.
Each working group will be directed by a neuroscientist and a legal expert and include up to 15 neuroscientists, legal scholars, philosophers, and practitioners involved in the legal system, including a judge.
Dixon ended the speech with a quote from the German philosopher Leibniz, that many supporters of legal AI and automation will no doubt strongly agree with: «It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation, which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.»
It is most famously contained in the Apology, Plato's account of Socrates» own encounter with the legal system, the trial in which the older philosopher was convicted and sentenced to death.
Coincidentally, or maybe that's what has me thinking more than usual about law and morality, Joseph Raz, one of our pre-eminent philosophers on legal and moral issues, has started to release some of his older papers onto SSRN.