Reconstructing Justice

Author : Franklin Strier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226777184
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Justice written by Franklin Strier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and persuasive critique, Franklin Strier doesn't simply describe problems with the American trial system; he proposes reforms. He offers a detailed blueprint of how to improve our basic adversarial system while blunting its excesses and inequities. Strier points out that the jury system was originally intended to diffuse the power of the government, but criticizes the method by which jurors are selected, patronized, and manipulated. Among his suggestions: eliminate peremptory challenges, give jurors the authority, and judges the responsibility, to ask questions of witnesses, and use neutral expert witnesses.

Author : Dr Theo Gavrielides
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409470733
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Restorative Justice Philosophy written by Dr Theo Gavrielides and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy and human rights into restorative justice theory, resulting in the development of new and stimulating arguments. Topics covered include the close relationship and convergence of restorative justice and human rights, some of the challenges of engagement with human rights, the need for the recognition of the teachings of restorative justice at both the theoretical and the applied level, the Aristotelian theory on restorative justice, the role of restorative justice in schools and in police practice and a discussion of the humanistic African philosophy of Ubuntu. With international contributions from various disciplines and through the use of value based research methods, the book deconstructs existing concepts and suggests a new conceptual model for restorative justice. This unique book will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.

Author : Robert S. Taylor
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056711
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Rawls written by Robert S. Taylor and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment—more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls’s so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice’s implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory—a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610272307
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom written by W. Lance Bennett and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom explains what makes stories believable and how ordinary people connect complex legal arguments and evidence presented in trials to assess guilt and innocence. The explanation takes the core elements of narrative—the who, what, where, when, how, why—and shows how average people who hear hundreds of stories every day use the connections between these elements to assess credibility. A series of simple experiments outside the courtroom provides evidence for the explanation, showing that there is little relationship between the actual truth of a story and the degree to which the story is believed to be true by an audience of random listeners not familiar with the teller. So, how do jurors make a particular legal judgment? Based on courtroom observation, trial transcripts, and credibility experiments, Bennett and Feldman create a method of diagramming stories that shows exactly what makes some stories more believable than others. Prosecutors and defense attorneys can use this method of analyzing stories to weigh the strategies and tactics available to them; scholars can use it to assess the process of legal judgment. Now in its Second Edition, this much-cited resource adds a new preface by the authors, as well as new forewords from divergent perspectives. From his experience in law practice, William S. Bailey notes that the book offers “timeless insights” as its authors “adapt a broad structural framework of storytelling to the criminal trial context, making it come alive in the dynamic real world courtroom environment.” Law-and-society scholar Anna-Maria Marshall writes that the book's “emphasis on storytelling will resonate with scholars studying legal consciousness, where narrative plays an important theoretical and methodological role.... This new edition will be a welcome addition to the Law and Society community.” "Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom is as timely as it was when this classic was first published. Here Bennett and Feldman provide great insight into the importance of storytelling as a basis of justice in American criminal trials. It deserves very wide readership." — Elizabeth F. Loftus Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine Author, "Eyewitness Testimony" (1996) "This classic law and society study on the power of legal stories is a rich and compelling empirical analysis of the dynamics of story construction in trials. The book remains an essential resource for law students, litigators, academics, and any others who wish to understand the interpretive significance of the stories told in the courtroom." — Jeannine Bell Professor of Law and Neizer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law — Bloomington Author, "Hate Thy Neighbor" (2013) Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from Quid Pro Books.

Author : Franklin D. Strier
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0899305687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Justice written by Franklin D. Strier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is so ensconced in the adversary system of trial justice that it has escaped serious public scrutiny. Yet it is replete with substantive deficiencies and injustices. As few others have, this book discusses and illustrates the major problems endemic to the adversary system in a scholarly but provocative fashion. Particular attention is given to the limitations of juries and the corrupting role trial attorneys often have on factfinding and jury decision-making. The book's most salient contribution is a comprehensive and detailed scheme of proposed reforms. Many are adopted from foreign trial systems and domestic alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; others are based on a long overdue revamping of the jury system. Is the basic procedural mechanism of the American trial just? Is the role behavior of the trial attorney essentially immoral? Are juries competent? Do attorney skills and tactics dictate trial outcomes more than do the merits of the cases? Do trial remedies really solve problems? These are some of the central issues this scholarly, but provocative book challenges us to confront. Transcending mere criticism of the trial system the author explores nonadversarial and less adversarial remedial alternatives from both domestic and foreign dispute resolution procedures. By eclectic adoption from these sources, plus some common sense reforms of the jury system, the author describes his vision of the courthouse of the future. Beginning with a comparison of the strategies used by the opposing attorneys in the two Rodney King trials, and their decisive effect on the outcomes, the opening chapter provides an overview of the major concepts and issues raised in the book. The second chapter explores the traditional justifications for the adversary system and jury trials, suggesting why we are captive to the notion that an adversarial trial is a just trial. Chapter Three discusses the many substantial criticisms of the American trial. Two of the most significant ones are examined and illuminated more intensively over the next two chapters: the questionable continuing viability of the lay jury in many kinds of cases; and the role of the attorney in flavoring--and often corrupting--the courtroom search for truth and justice. Chapter Six looks at domestic and foreign alternatives to adversarial trial court dispute resolution. In the final chapter, the author presents a comprehensive, detailed blueprint for reform to meet the inevitable needs of our trial system in the years to come. This book will have particular appeal to legal educators, practicing attorneys, judges and government administrators. But anyone with an abiding interest in the quality of trial justice will be intrigued by it.

Author : Kevin K. Kumashiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135198055
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Common Sense written by Kevin K. Kumashiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience teaching diverse grades and subjects, Kevin Kumashiro examines aspects of teaching and learning toward social justice, and suggests concrete implications for K-12 teachers and teacher educators.

Author : Heather Strang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351965298
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restorative Justice written by Heather Strang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing development of restorative justice practice over the past decade has inspired creative new thinking about the philosophy of punishment and principles of justice. Many of the questions raised in this book – such as the relationship between restorative and retributive justice and the values and processes which should guide restorative practice – are the subject of intense debates. With contributions from many of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this book analyzes the gap between philosophy and practice and the need for practice to be more informed by philosophy. This volume is a milestone in the development of those underlying principles which will direct the progress of restorative justice in the future.

Author : Eric A. Posner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834406
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Justice written by Eric A. Posner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative contribution to the climate justice debate Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should—indeed, must—directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case that the best—and possibly only—way to get an effective climate treaty is to exclude measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries. In clear language, Climate Change Justice proposes four basic principles for designing the only kind of climate treaty that will work—a forward-looking agreement that requires every country to make greenhouse-gas reductions but still makes every country better off in its own view. This kind of treaty has the best chance of actually controlling climate change and improving the welfare of people around the world.

Author : Abhinav Kumar
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Justice: Dharmashastras and Legal Reform written by Abhinav Kumar and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Reconstructing Justice: Dharmashastras and Legal Reform" the author, embarks on a transformative journey to rediscover the authentic roots of India's legal system. With a fervent commitment to dismantling the distorted narratives imposed by colonial rule, Abhinav offers a compelling exploration of India's rich cultural and philosophical heritage. In this illuminating book, Abhinav passionately argues for the restoration of India's original legal paradigm, untainted by foreign influences. Drawing from historical sources and ancient texts, he meticulously deconstructs the false reality propagated by colonial powers and unveils the timeless wisdom embedded within India's indigenous legal traditions.

Author : Hanoch Dagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199890692
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory written by Hanoch Dagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how legal realism offers important and unique jurisprudential insights that are not just a part of legal history, but are also relevant and useful for a contemporary understanding of legal theory.