Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination

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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination

Author	: Ian Ward
File Size	: 48,9 Mb
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 July 1999
ISBN	: 040698803X
Pages	: 258 pages

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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination by Ian Ward Book PDF Summary

This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination by Ian Ward

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Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced A.I. systems. Acting in good conscience, consulting one’s conscience, and being conscience-wracked are all aspects of human intelligence that involve reckoning (deriving general laws from particular inputs and vice versa), and judgement (contemplating the relationship of the reckoning system

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