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The Right to Do Wrong : Morality and the Limits of Law / / Mark Osiel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674368255
  • 9780674240193
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340/.112 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Defining the Puzzle -- 1. Common Morality, Social Mores, and the Law -- 2. A Sampling of Rights to Do Wrong -- 3. Three Rights to Do Wrong -- 4. How to "Abuse" a Right -- 5. Law and Morality in Ordinary Language and Social Science -- 6. Divergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 7. Convergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 8. Questions of Method and Meaning: The Law at Odds with Common Morality -- 9. Why This Book Is Not What You Had in Mind -- 10. The Changing Stance of Lawyers toward Common Morality -- 11. Commercial Morality, Bourgeois Virtue, and the Law -- 12. How We Attach Responsibilities to Rights -- 13. Common Morality Confronts Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Much of what we could do, we shouldn't-and we don't. Mark Osiel shows that common morality-expressed as shame, outrage, and stigma-is society's first line of defense against transgressions. Social norms can be indefensible, but when they complement the law, they can save us from an alternative that is far worse: a repressive legal regime.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Defining the Puzzle -- 1. Common Morality, Social Mores, and the Law -- 2. A Sampling of Rights to Do Wrong -- 3. Three Rights to Do Wrong -- 4. How to "Abuse" a Right -- 5. Law and Morality in Ordinary Language and Social Science -- 6. Divergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 7. Convergences of Law and Morals: Sites and Sources -- 8. Questions of Method and Meaning: The Law at Odds with Common Morality -- 9. Why This Book Is Not What You Had in Mind -- 10. The Changing Stance of Lawyers toward Common Morality -- 11. Commercial Morality, Bourgeois Virtue, and the Law -- 12. How We Attach Responsibilities to Rights -- 13. Common Morality Confronts Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Much of what we could do, we shouldn't-and we don't. Mark Osiel shows that common morality-expressed as shame, outrage, and stigma-is society's first line of defense against transgressions. Social norms can be indefensible, but when they complement the law, they can save us from an alternative that is far worse: a repressive legal regime.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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