New legal moralism: Some Strengths and Challenges

Criminal Law and Philosophy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-232

  Petersen, Thomas Søbirk ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Criminal law; Criminalization; Devlin; John Kekes; Legal moralism; Legal theory; Michael Moore; Philosophy of law; Robert P. George

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952420208     PISSN: 18719791     EISSN: 18719805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11572-010-9094-5     Document Type: Article

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