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Should Law Improve Morality?

Abstract:: Lawyers and philosophers have long debated whether law should enforce social morality. This paper explores whether law should improve social morality. It explains how this might be possible, and what sort of obstacles, factual and moral, there are to doing so. It concludes with an example: our law should attempt to improve our social morality of sexual conduct. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

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Green, L. (2013). Should Law Improve Morality? Criminal Law and Philosophy, 7(3), 473–494.

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Green, L. “Should Law Improve Morality?” Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 3, 2013, pp. 473–94.

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Green, L. 2013. “Should Law Improve Morality?” Criminal Law and Philosophy 7 (3): 473–94.
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Publisher copy:: 10.1007/s11572-013-9248-3

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Journal:: Criminal Law and Philosophy More from this journal
Volume:: 7
Issue:: 3
Pages:: 473-494
Publication date:: 2013-10-01
DOI:: 10.1007/s11572-013-9248-3
EISSN:: 1871-9805
ISSN:: 1871-9791

Language:: English
Keywords:: HLA Hart

Consent

Paul Robinson

Patrick Devlin

Social morality

Rape
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Source identifiers:: 417057
Deposit date:: 2014-08-16

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