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29 Jun 2007, 4:24 am
In a way, the visionaries sound more than a bit like Jeremy Bentham, who called for codification on the ground that the common law was frequently a chaotic mess of decisions, defying reason. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 2:49 am
This blogger disagrees with so eminent a figure as Christophe Geiger with the greatest of reluctance on matters of legal substance, but feels confident enough to debate with him on matters of mere metaphor. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 7:09 am by Gary L. Francione
Bentham was no doubt aware that the animals we used for food suffered a great deal. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 6:04 pm
In person attendance: Denys Holland Lecture Theatre, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 1:23 pm by Lawrence Solum
 But is the good really just a matter of pleasures and pains? [read post]
27 Nov 2011, 8:13 pm by Lawrence Solum
 But is the good really just a matter of pleasures and pains? [read post]
13 May 2018, 5:31 am by SHG
My figuratively little shit Bentham-licker replied by noting that this was the foundation of utilitarianism. [read post]
7 Feb 2020, 12:43 am
This will be held on 17 and 18 February 2020, from 9am-6pm on both days, in the Hong Kong Alumni Room, UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 4:22 am by Jennifer Davis
Κ487.P65 Ρ57 2001 Ripoli, Mariangela, 1953-  Itinerari della felicità: la filosofia giuspolitica di Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 4:45 pm by Lawrence Solum
It is suggested that while theorists from both sides pursue matters of common concern, it is possible to detect some variations in tendency between their respective approaches. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 11:29 pm by Gary L. Francione
On Saturday, I will be engaging people who are committed welfarists and I hope to at least stimulate them into thinking about the practical limits of welfare reform and the moral problems with animal use (however “humane”) as a general matter. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 9:20 am by Sandy Levinson
Don't get me wrong:  I think it is fine to "follow precedent" in matters that aren't of much importance. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 7:52 am
Where Wells’s “The Time Machine,” which came out not long after, gave us pale Eloi and proletarian Morlocks, Bellamy was chiefly prescient about Amazon Prime....As Bellamy’s book progresses, power, brutality, and the capacity to dominate become all that matters. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 3:39 am
Incidentally, I hadn't encountered the term dog law, but apparently it was coined by Jeremy Bentham with reference to judge-made criminal law: It is the judges (as we have seen) that make the common law. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 9:31 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Jury testimony is permitted, therefore, on matters said to encompass “external matters” or “extraneous” influences on their deliberations (e.g., and most obviously, a threat, a bribe, reading or hearing about the trial from media sources, and so forth). [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 4:00 pm
Bentham simply assumes that pleasure is a single homogeneous type of sensation, varying only in intensity and duration. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 10:21 am by Charon QC
” Jeremy Bentham It always struck me as ironic when I was teaching Jurisprudence some years ago that Jeremy Bentham – Exhibit A and stuffed in a glass case at University College London – English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer, enjoyed a sideline in prison design. [read post]