The Sense of Justice : Empathy in Law and Punishment

In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists...

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Autor principal: Markus Dirk Dubber
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Publicado: NYU Press 2006
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