Utility, publicity, and law : essays on Bentham's moral and legal philosophy /
The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy. Early on, Bentham discovered his 'genius for legislation' - 'legislation' included not only lawmaking and code writing, but also political and social institution building...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Foundations. Meaning, analysis and exposition : the technology of thought
- Human psychology, individual and social
- Normative theory : the principle of utility
- Publicity and the development of Bentham's theory of value
- Bentham's equality-sensitive theory of value
- Interests, universal and particular
- Part II: Jurisprudence
- Utility, public rules and common-law adjudication
- Utility and command : roots of Bentham's universal jurisprudence
- Facts, fictions and law : foundations of the law of evidence
- In defense of French nonsense : fundamental rights in constitutional jurisprudence
- Utilitarian international order
- The soul of justice : Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law
- Bentham : theorist of publicity.