Public reason and courts

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The work Public reason and courts represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Public reason and courts

Statement of responsibility

edited by Silje A. Langvatn, Mattias Kumm, Wojciech Sadurski

Contributor

• Langvatn, Silje Aambø, 1976-
• Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950-
• Kumm, Mattias

Editor

• Kumm, Mattias
• Langvatn, Silje Aambø, 1976-
• Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950-

Subject

• Judicial process
• Political questions and judicial power
• Public policy (Law)
• Rawls, John, 1921-2002 -- Influence

Language

eng

Summary

Public Reason and Courts is an interdisciplinary study of public reason and courts with contributions from leading scholars in legal theory, political philosophy and political science. The book's chapters demonstrate the breadth of ways in which public reason and public justification is currently seen as relevant for adjudicative reasoning and review practices, and includes critical assessments of different ways that the idea of public reason has been applied to courts. It shows that public reason is not just an abstract theoretical concept used by political philosophers, but an idea that spurs new perspectives and normative frameworks also for legal scholars and judges. In particular, the book demonstrates the potential, and the limitations, of the idea of public reason as a source of legitimacy for courts, in a context where many courts face political backlashes and crisis of trust

Member of

• Studies on international courts and tribunals

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3367

LC item number

.P83 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Studies on international courts and tribunals