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The myth of moral justice ; why our legal system fails to do what's right
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- Creator
- Thane Rosenbaum
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Perennial edition
- New York : Perennial, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 364 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060735241, 0060735244
- OCLC
- ocm60408051
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-350) and index.
- Doing the right thing: the split between the moral and the legal -- A new paradigm of moral justice -- Pound of flesh -- Story as remedy -- The various faces of grief -- Aborted trials and lying under the law -- The best-kept secrets of zealous advocates -- Forbidden emotions in a world out of order -- Judges who feign not having feelings -- Apology as moral antidote to the legal disease -- Apologies in practice -- Restoration or revenge -- Repair in practice -- The non-duty to rescue under American law -- Rescue as moral imperative -- The law's preference for the body over the soul -- Frustrated lawyers and the public's discontent -- The artist and the law