00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004662 10703/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10702/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221027050751 10702/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10703/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520004662 221027################|##########|#eng## 9780415442510 eng 340.112 340.112 VEI l Veitch, Scott Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering / Scott Veitch New York : Routledge, 2007 x, 156 p. ; 23 cm. 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. Law-Moral and ethical aspects Human rights 10702/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10703/MKRI-P/XI-2008