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Justice Before the Law

by Michael Huemer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783030675424
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 373
  • Original Price: EUR 27.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2021
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Reference, Political, and Ethics & Moral Philosophy

From the Back Cover
America's legal system harbors serious, widespread injustices. Many defendants are sent to prison for nonviolent offenses, including many victimless crimes. Convicts often serve draconian sentences in crowded prisons rife with abuse. Almost all defendants are convicted without trial because prosecutors threaten defendants with drastically higher sentences if they request a trial. Most Americans are terrified of encountering any kind of legal trouble, knowing that both civil and criminal courts are extremely slow, unreliable, and expensive to use. This book explores the largest injustices in the legal system and what can be done about them. Besides proposing institutional reforms, the author argues that prosecutors, judges, lawyers, and jury members ought to place justice before the law - for example, by refusing to enforce unjust laws or impose unjust sentences. Issues addressed include:

- The philosophical basis for judgments about rights and justice

- The problems of overcriminalization and mass incarceration

- Abuse of power by police and prosecutors

- The injustice of plea bargaining

- The appropriateness of jury nullification

- The authority of the law, or the lack thereof

Justice Before the Law is essential reading for everyone interested in legal ethics, the rule of law, and criminal justice. It is also ideal for students of legal philosophy.


Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, USA. He is the author of more than seventy articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as six bestselling philosophy books, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2012) and Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism (2019).

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