Law-Moral and ethical aspects -- Human rights

Indeks : p. 155-157 ; p. 147-153 ; Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life ? from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships ? it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility. With a particular focus on large-scale harms ? including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, and environmental or nuclear devastation ? this book analyzes the ways in which law legitimates human suffering by demonstrating how legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them.