Kenneth Ehrenberg
I teach public law & legal philosophy at the University of Surrey and am the Co-Director of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy.
I received a JD from Yale and a PhD in philosophy from Columbia.
Location United Kingdom
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If you mean by what criteria do we judge a law to be unjust, then the answer is whatever criteria imposed by reason and the nature of justice. The question in this module is not which laws are unjust or what makes them unjust, but rather what does the fact of their injustice do to their status as laws.
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What about laws that don't come with punishments? The laws in the United States about how to treat the US flag have no punishments attached for breaking them. Does that mean it isn't really a law? What about the laws that tell you what the powers of the President are? Do those have to be 'enforced' in order to be laws?
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Why is morality a personal thing? If I say that it is wrong to torture puppies, is that just my personal opinion? If I saw someone trying to hurt a puppy and then tried to stop him, am I imposing my beliefs on him?
