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The value and legitimacy of using courts to limit the powers of governments in the domain of human rights is a significant ongoing debate. This book provides a critical review that explores the alternative means for protecting and promoting human rights.

Britain's Human Rights Act of 1998 is the latest in a wave of legislative and constitutional instruments that put human rights at the top of the public law agenda. These instruments are widely welcomed by senior judges and by academic and practicing lawyers, many of whom have campaigned for their introduction. Other parties, however, have expressed doubts about the wisdom of these developments. In this collection of essays, contributors skillf...

Justice is one of the most enduring and central concepts within applied philosophy, and generates a vast and varied literature. This title brings together the most important historical and contemporary articles on key topics, and are edited by leading experts in the field.

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In legal theory, legal positivism is generally taken to be the view that the concept of law can be elucidated without reference to morality. It is the thesis of this book that such a belief in the amoralism (and certainly the immoralism) of legal positivism is mistaken.

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Part of the second series of the "International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory". In choosing the papers for this collection, the editor leaned towards contributors with sympathy for legal positivism but not lacking critical elements in their attitude towards the tradition.

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In this book, a distinguished international group of legal theorists re-examine legal positivism as a prescriptive political theory and consider its implications for the constitutionally defined roles of legislatures and courts. The issues are illustrated with recent developments in Australian constitutional law.

The value and legitimacy of using courts to limit the powers of governments in the domain of human rights is a significant ongoing debate. This book provides a critical review that explores the alternative means for protecting and promoting human rights.