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Bentham's theory of law and public opinion
"This collection represents the latest research from leading scholars whose work has helped to frame our understanding of Bentham since the publication of H. L. A. Hart's Essays on Bentham . The authors explore fundamental areas of Bentham's thought, including the relationship between...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Online Access: | Cover image https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/benthams-theory-of-law-and-public-opinion/BE6E5516334EE53530CE3CB5BA8C3B06 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Fred Rosen
- Law's rule : reflexivity, mutual accountability, and the rule of law / Gerald Postema
- The soul of justice: Bentham on publicity, law and the rule of law / Gerald Postema
- Popular prejudices, real pains : what does a legislator do when the people err in assigning mischief? / Michael Quinn
- Jeremy Bentham on taste, sex and religion / Philip Schofield
- Bentham's jurisprudence and democratic theory : an alternative to Hart's approach / David Lieberman
- Bentham's natural arrangement and the collapse of the expositor-censor distinction in the general theory of law / Xiaobo Zhai
- Utility, morality and reform : Bentham and eighteenth-century continental jurisprudence / Emmanuelle de Champs
- A defence of Jeremy Bentham's critique of natural rights / Philip Schofield.