research-handbook-on-law-and-utilitarianism


Parution : 10/2024
Editeur : Edward Elgar
ISBN : 978-1-7899-0171-9
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Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism

Sous la direction de Guillaume Tusseau

Présentation de l’éditeur

The Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism sheds light on contemporary legal culture and the ways in which it interacts with theories of justice. Guillaume Tusseau brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to analyse the utilitarian standpoint on legal disciplines and legal governance, as well as the contribution of utilitarian arguments to legal debates.

The Research Handbook addresses the practical contribution of utilitarian thinkers and politics on the development and reform of specific branches of law, including private, criminal, constitutional, administrative, procedural and human rights. Chapters also assess the importance of utilitarianism in legal debates on topics such as LGBT rights, feminism, transhumanism, migration, public health and environmental law. Ultimately, the authors critically analyse the relevance of utilitarianism in contemporary legal culture, providing an intellectual and path-breaking strategy to debate legal governance and legal ideology.

Addressing crucial jurisprudential controversies, this innovative Research Handbook is vital for students and scholars of legal philosophy, law and society, and political theory. It will also appeal to legal practitioners interested in the ethics of law, as well as specialists on deontological issues.

 

Sommaire

1 Introduction: Putting critical jurisprudence to task
Guillaume Tusseau

PART I. MAPPING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE AND STRUCTURING LEGAL GOVERNANCE

2 Analytic jurisprudence
Pierluigi Chiassoni

3 A utilitarian theory of private law
Craig Purshouse

4 The rise of utilitarianism in criminal justice
Malcolm Thorburn

5 Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, and the utilitarian constitution
Xiaobo Zhai

6 Bentham and administrative law
Thomas Perroud

7 Utilitarian legal procedures
Francesco Ferraro

8 Utilitarianism and the law of evidence
Olivier Leclerc

9 Utilitarian business ethics and company law
Andrew Gustafson

10 Jeremy Bentham and the genesis of law and economics: an alternative narrative
Dina I. Waked

11 Nudge and utilitarianism: a matter of preferences
Malik Bozzo-Rey

12 Bentham, Rawls and Sen on Law, Justice and Rights
Sterling Harwood and Don A. Habibi

PART II. UNSETTLING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE AND DEBATING LEGAL GOVERNANCE

13 Utilitarianism and LGBT rights
Benoît Basse

14 Social order, cooperation, and the way out: a feminist reading of Jeremy Bentham, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler
Paola Rudan

15 Utilitarianism and reproductive rights
Sarah Conly

16 Utilitarianism and killing
Tatjana Višak

17 Health crises from a utilitarian perspective
Xavier Bioy

18 Medical ethics and utilitarianism
Alicia Dorothy Mornington and David Smadja

19 Transhumanism, politics, ethics and utilitarianism
Jean-Yves Goffi

20 A utilitarian approach to copyright law and generative artificial intelligence
Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman

21 Utilitarianism and panopticism
Anne Brunon-Ernst

22 Utilitarianism and religion
Jean-Pierre Cléro

23 Utilitarianism and migration
Isabella Luisa Mariani

24 Legal utilitarianism in environmental law: a critique of the critique
Clément Lacombe

25 Animal law through a utilitarian lens
Régis Bismuth

26 Fictions and legal ideology
Claire Wrobel

Research Handbooks in Legal Theory series , 486 pages.  £198.00