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Forgotten Justice

Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory

By: Allan Beever

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Forgotten Justice

Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory

By: Allan Beever

Challenging the assumptions of modern political and legal philosophy, this book presents a historical account of the development of thinking about justice and political obligations. It argues against the modern fixation with the state, and for a return to traditional conceptions of political community and the law.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199675481

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The Law of Private Nuisance

By: Allan Beever

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The Law of Private Nuisance

By: Allan Beever

It is said that a nuisance is an interference with the use and enjoyment of land. This definition is typically unhelpful. While a nuisance must fit this account, it is plain that not all such interferences are legal nuisances. Thus, analysis of this area of the law begins with a definition far too broad for its subject matter, forcing the analyst to find more or less arbitrary ways of cutting back on potential liability. Tort law is plagued by this kind of approach. In the law of nuisance, today's preferred method of cutting back is to employ the notion of reasonableness. No one seems to know quite what 'reasonableness' means in this context, however. This is because, in fact, it does not mean anything. The notion is no more than the immediately recognisable symptom of our inadequate comprehension of the law. This book expounds a new understanding of the law of nuisance, an understanding that presents the law in a coherent and systematic fashion. It advances a single, central suggestion: that the law of nuisance is the method that the common law utilises for prioritising property rights so that conflicts between uses of property can be resolved.

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297

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782253408

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A Theory of Tort Liability

By: Allan Beever

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A Theory of Tort Liability

By: Allan Beever

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights. Inspired by the account of private law contained in Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, the book shows that Kant's theory elucidates a conception of interpersonal wrongdoing that illuminates the operation of tort law. The book then utilises this conception, applying it to the various areas of tort law, in order to develop an understanding of the particular areas in question and, just as importantly, their relationship to each other. It argues that there are three general kinds of liability found in the law of tort: liability for putting another or another's property to one's purposes directly, liability for doing something to a third party that puts another or another's property to one's purposes, and liability for pursuing purposes in a way that improperly interferes with the ability of another to pursue her legitimate purposes. It terms these forms liability for direct control, liability for indirect control and liability for injury respectively. The result is a coherent, philosophical understanding of the structure of tort liability as an entire system. In developing its position, the book considers the laws of Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States.

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1509903194

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Forgotten Justice

Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory

By: Allan Beever

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Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory

By: Allan Beever

Throughout much of the history of political philosophy, many of the great philosophers begin their work with an investigation of private law. Why is this? And why is the central focus of our modern concern, the state, examined so late in their works? This book suggests an answer to these and related questions. It reveals that there are two general ways of thinking about the legal and the political: the modern which sees all through the lens of the state, and the traditional which begins with individuals and with the normative relations that exist between them building only slowly towards the community and the state. In the modern view, private law is understood as a method for achieving certain social goals. As such, it can be overlooked by political philosophy. For the traditional view, on the other hand, private law is of central philosophical importance, because it is there that we observe a society's enunciation of its most fundamental political and legal values. Arguing that an understanding of the traditional view is essential to an understanding of private law and political life, this book highlights how the modern conception is seriously distorting in this regard. A story unfolds throughout the chapters: the story of the growth and decline of the traditional view in political and legal thought. It challenges the modern fixation with the state, arguing for a return to the traditional view of legal and political community.

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OUP Oxford

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0191662992

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A Theory of Tort Liability

By: Allan Beever

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509903208

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Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

By: Allan Beever

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Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

By: Allan Beever

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence. Its aim is to re-establish the notion that thinking about the law ought to and can proceed on the basis of principle. As such, it is opposed to the prevalent modern view that the various aspects of the law are and must be based on individual policy decisions and that the task of the judge or commentator is to shape the law in terms of the relevant policies as she sees them. The book, then, is an attempt to re-establish the law of negligence as a body of law rather than as a branch of politics. The book argues that the law of negligence is best understood in terms of a relatively small set of principles enunciated in a small number of leading cases. It further argues that these principles are themselves best seen in terms of an aspect of morality called corrective justice which, when applied to the most important aspects of the law of negligence reveals that the law - even as it now exists - possesses a far greater degree of conceptual unity than is commonly thought. Using this method the author is able to examine familiar aspects of the law of negligence such as the standard of care; the duty of care; remoteness; misfeasance; economic loss; negligent misrepresentation; the liability of public bodies; wrongful conception; nervous shock; the defences of contributory negligence, voluntary assumption of risk, and illegality; causation; and issues concerning proof, to show that when the principles are applied and the idea of corrective justice is properly understood then the law appears both systematic and conceptually satisfactory. The upshot is a rediscovery of the law of negligence.

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1847316999

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Proceedings Of The Xiv International Grassland Congress

By: J. Allan Smith,Virgil M. Hays

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Proceedings Of The Xiv International Grassland Congress

By: J. Allan Smith,Virgil M. Hays

Approximately 1500 scientists from around the globe participated in the InternationalGrassland Congress at the University of Kentucky in 1981, sharing existingknowledge of grasslands and exploring methods for increasing the productivity oflivestock/forage systems so as to better feed mankind while maintaining or improvingenvironmental quality. Of the nearly 500 papers presented on previously unpublishedoriginal research or experimental research and development projects, 273 were selectedfor inclusion in this book. They cover the current basic and applied research on productionand utilization of forages from grasslands the world over.

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878

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CRC Press

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1000236390

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Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

By: Allan Beever

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1847315011

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Law’s Reality

A Philosophy of Law

By: Allan Beever

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Law’s Reality

A Philosophy of Law

By: Allan Beever

Allan Beever lays the foundation for a timely philosophical and empirical study of the nature of law with a detailed examination of the structure of evolving law through declaratory speech acts. This engaging book demonstrates both how law itself is achieved and also its ability to generate rights, duties, obligations, permissions and powers.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800374151

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9781800374157

Freedom Under the Private Law

By: Allan Beever

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Freedom Under the Private Law

By: Allan Beever

Freedom Under the Private Law examines the relationship between the private law, the rule of law and the protection of liberty. It traces important historical shifts in how these relationships have been conceived, from Plato’s conception of the Philosopher Kings, through the classical nineteenth century view of Dicey, the rise of the welfare state and the modern political economy of the present day. It offers a nuanced analysis of the intersection between private law and personal freedom.

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1035314525

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Book's by Allan Beever

Forgotten Justice

Forgotten Justice

The Law of Private Nuisance

The Law of Private Nuisance

A Theory of Tort Liability

A Theory of Tort Liability

Forgotten Justice

Forgotten Justice

A Theory of Tort Liability

A Theory of Tort Liability

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

Proceedings Of The Xiv International Grassland Congress

Proceedings Of The Xiv International Grassland Congress

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

Law’s Reality

Law’s Reality

Freedom Under the Private Law

Freedom Under the Private Law

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