When Should Law Forgive?
- ISBN-10
- 0393651827
- ISBN-13
- 9780393651829
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-09-24
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Martha Minow
Description
“Martha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In an age increasingly defined by accusation and resentment, Martha Minow makes an eloquent, deeply-researched argument in favor of strengthening the role of forgiveness in the administration of law. Through three case studies, Minow addresses such foundational issues as: Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? The result is as lucid as it is compassionate: A compelling study of the mechanisms of justice by one of this country’s foremost legal experts.
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