Punishment, Compensation, and Law by Mark R Reiff

Punishment, Compensation, and Law by Mark R Reiff

This book is the first comprehensive study of the meaning and measure of enforceability. While we have long debated what restraints should govern the conduct of our social life, we have paid relatively little attention to the question of what it means to make a restraint enforceable. Focusing on the enforceability of legal rights but also addressing the enforceability of moral rights and social conventions, Mark Reiff explains how we use punishment and compensation to make restraints operative in the world. After describing the various means by which restraints may be enforced, Reiff explains how the sufficiency of enforcement can be measured, and he presents a unified theory of deterrence, retribution, and compensation that shows how these aspects of enforceability are interconnected. Reiff then applies his theory of enforceability to illuminate a variety of real-world problem situations.

Review of the hardback: 'Mark Reiff's … [book] … is originalI intend this remark as high praise. … Since Reiff poses questions and provides answers that are new, any legal philosopher interested in these matters will be stimulated by his unusual perspective. … Reiff unquestionably has taken a novel approach to many important but frequently unaddressed problems in the philosophy of law.' Douglas Husak, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Review of the hardback: 'Reiff's book is as ambitious as it is important [and] as much a contribution to moral and political philosophy as to the philosophy of law.' Michael Davis, Ethics

Rowan Cruft is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His recent work has appeared in Law & Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Utilitas, and related journals.

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. Among his many books, the most recently published is The Death Penalty Redux: A Philosophical
Investigation (OUP, 2011).

Mark R. Reiff is a Senior Lecturer in Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester School of Law. He is the author of various papers on topics within legal, political, and moral philosophy, and before becoming an academic, spent many years as a practicing lawyer. During the
2008-09 academic year, Dr Reiff was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His second book, Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State, the product of that fellowship, is forthcoming.

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ISBN 13	9780521846691
ISBN 10	0521846692
Title	Punishment, Compensation, and Law
Author	Mark R Reiff
Series	Cambridge Studies In Philosophy And Law
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2005-07-11
Number of pages	274
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