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Law, self-interest, and the Smithian conscience
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This essay examines how law understands and engages with self-interest. After examining the turn to voluntarism and away from a jurisdiction of conscience in recent law and legal theory, it moves attention to intellectual history, and examines the work of Adam Smith in ethics, economics and jurisprudence, where a theory of conscience based on sympathy is used to explain self-interest and to provide the ground of an original ethical system. Evidence is then adduced that lawyers in Chancery in ...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 757.1KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5040/9781509903856.ch-014
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- Hart Publishing Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Law in Theory and History: New Essays on a Neglected Dialogue
- Issue:
- 14
- Pages:
- 250-283
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-17
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- ISBN:
- 9781849467995
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- 2016-03-22
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Bloomsbury at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509903856.ch-014
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