American justice; ethical foundations and the evolution of modern law.9781890938116 American justice American Justice is an hour-long criminal justice program on the cable channel A&E Network, hosted by Bill Kurtis. The show features interesting or notable cases, such as the Scarsdale Diet doctor murder, the Hillside Stranglers, Selena Murder of a Star, Matthew Shepard, or the ; ethical foundations and the evolution of modern law. Gesell, Laurence E. Coast Aire Publications 2008 948 pages $89.00 Hardcover KF154 Gessell (social and behavioral sciences behavioral sciences, n.pl those sciences devoted to the study of human and animal behavior. , Arizona State U.) wrote this book to address the legal and judicial system in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , the morality under-girding law and society in America, and its evolution and development. First, he discusses the evolution of law in chapters that discuss the philosophy of Western law and American justice together with patterns of legal and social evolution. He then explores the ethical foundations of the law from Aristotle and Plato to the US Constitution, touching upon Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Rousseau, Bentham, Milton Friedman, John Rawls, Roman Law, the Magna Carta Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and the church in June, 1215. , and the Napoleonic code Napoleonic Code French Code Civil French civil code enacted by Napoleon in 1804. It clarified and made uniform the private law of France and followed Roman law in being divided into three books: the law of persons, things, and modes of acquiring ownership of along the way. Next he presents a review of constitutional law that involves the political economy of government and society, the US Constitution as social contract, comparison of criminal and civil law, and an introduction to legal research. Finally, he discusses the legal, social-contractual obligations of citizens, government, and corporations. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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