Conflicts of law and morality

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Conflicts of law and morality

Kent Greenawalt

(Clarendon law series)

Oxford University Press , Clarendon Press, 1989

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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This book deals with conscientious law-breaking - those instances in which individuals believe that they have sound moral reasons for breaking a particular law. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the grey area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. It views these oblique circumstances from two perspectives: that of the person who faces a possible conflict between the claims of morality and law and must choose whether or not to obey the penal code; and that of the people who make and uphold laws and must decide whether to treat someone with a moral claim to disobey differently from ordinary lawbreakers.

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