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- Provocative and controversial questioning of the established way of looking at welfare/best interests
- Obvious practical relevance to family and medical lawyers, and of interest to professional philosophers, those interested in the history of ideas, and general readers
- Accessibly and engagingly written, with swashbuckling contempt for technical jargon
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Charles Foster
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Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jonathan Herring
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Altruism, Welfare and the Law
Authors: Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21605-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21604-1Published: 28 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21605-8Published: 16 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-855X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 82
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Ethics, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Law and Psychology