The right to do wrong : morality and the limits of law /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osiel, Mark (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Common morality, social mores, and the law
  • A sampling of rights to do wrong
  • Three rights to do serious wrong
  • How to "abuse" a right
  • Law and morality in ordinary language and social science
  • Divergences of law and morals: sites and sources
  • Convergences of law and morals: sites and sources
  • Questions of method and meaning
  • Why this book is not what you had in mind
  • The changing stance of lawyers towards common morality
  • Commercial morality, bourgeois virtue, and the law
  • How we attach responsibilities to rights
  • Common morality confronts modernity.