Law, Virtue and Justice

Amalia Amaya is a Researcher in the Institute of Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Ho Hock Lai is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore.

[The books is] sure to be a valuable resource for legal scholars and practitioners for years to come.

• 1. Of Law, Virtue and Justice – An Introduction Amalia Amaya and Ho Hock LaiI. Law, Virtue and Legal Reasoning 2. Practical Wisdom in Legal Decision-Making Claudio Michelon3. The Role of Virtue in Legal Justification Amalia Amaya 4. Education and Paternalism: Plato on Virtue and the Law Sandrine Berges II. Law, Virtue and Character5. Neoclassical Public Virtues: Towards an Aretaic Theory of Law-Making (and Law Teaching) Sherman J Clark 6. Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence Linghao Wang and Lawrence B Solum7. The Three Stages of Judges' Self-Development Mateusz Stêpieñ III. Virtue Theory and Criminal Law8. Motivating Intentions, Reciprocal Specification of Ends and the Assessment of Responsibility Kyron Huigens 9. Liberal Virtue Ekow N Yankah 10. Virtue, Vice and the Criminal Law – A Response to Huigens and Yankah RA DuffIV. Legal Fact-Finding: Aretaic Perspectives11. Virtues of Truthfulness in Forbearing Wrongs: Client Confidentiality Qualified by Legal Symmetry of Past and Future Harm Hendrik Kaptein 12. Virtuous Deliberation on the Criminal Verdict Ho Hock Lai13. Must Virtue be Particular? Frederick SchauerV. Law, Empathy and Justice14. Empathy, Law and Justice Michael Slote15. Empathy in Law (A Response to Slote) John Deigh16. On Empathy as a Necessary, but Not Sufficient, Foundation for Justice (A Response to Slote) Susan J Brison17. Reply to Deigh and Brison Michael Slote