Justifying judgment
Subtitle: practicing law and philosophy
By: Vincent J. Samar.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Justice.; Law and politics.; Law and ethics.; Judicial process.
Description: Justifying Judgement reconsiders the relationship between legal and political philosophy, showing that the former is incomplete without the latter. Taking the problem of how to solve difficult cases as his point of departure, Vincent Samar demonstrates the inherent incompleteness of conventional theories of law.

He reviews the current state of legal and political theory and advances a metatheory for law that would enable judges to decide such cases by drawing upon the best available theory of politics appropriate to the case's level of abstraction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.