Economics 3366A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Preposition And Postposition, Apartheid Legislation, International Criminal Court
8 Oct 2020
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We live in an age of public accountability. The establishment of the international criminal court marks an important post-war recognition that gross injustice perpetrated by states shouldn"t go unpunished. Moral and ethical evaluation is itself problematic. A number of fundamental moral judgments turn on which conception of ethics one adopts. Apartheid in south africa as an archetypal unjust society, the selection of any society as a model is not free of difficulty. The values of any consideration of the judge"s moral dilemma is likely to be diminished without a credible theory of the judicial function in a common law context. The quest for moral clarity is unlikely to be advanced by the preposition that what purports to be law is not law. Lex iniusta non est lex (an unjust law is not law) For fuller the choice between applying an amoral datum called law and doing what is thought to be right and decent is a nonsense.
