The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 41996189
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198808084.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198808084
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on research of extended scope and scale, this book engages with multiple fields, including legal and constitutional theory, ethics, and metaethics. It empirically investigates different forms of value-based arguments in a number of constitutional systems (national and supranational). In contrast to the standard question posed in much constitutional theory (whether the courts get moral answers wrong), this book asked a more fundamental question: whether the courts get the morality wrong. Answering that question required both development of a metaethical understanding of value, and concrete proposals that aim to change the way in which courts use value-based arguments.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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