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- Title
Don't Feel Threatened by Law.
- Authors
Miotto, Lucas
- Abstract
The idea that legal systems conditionally threaten citizens is taken by most legal and political philosophers as 'reasonably uncontroversial,' 'obvious,' or as portraying 'a large part of how law operates.' This paper clarifies and ultimately rejects this idea: our legal systems, it is argued, rarely address citizens via conditional threats. If correct, the conclusion defended in this paper might force us to re-examine core debates in legal and political philosophy that rely on the assumption that legal systems often threaten citizens: debates about the justification of the state, global justice, and the coerciveness of law.
- Subjects
LAW; THREATS (Law); CONDITIONS (Law); JUSTICE administration; JUSTICE; JURISPRUDENCE; POLITICAL philosophy
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 2022, Vol 35, Issue 2, p487
- ISSN
0841-8209
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/cjlj.2022.15