Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Raymond Wacks

Author:Raymond Wacks [Wacks, Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Justice

The law is frequently equated with justice. Courts are designated ‘courts of justice’, their buildings flamboyantly emblazoned with the word itself, or its symbolic representations of equity and fairness. Governments create ministries of ‘justice’ to oversee the administration of the legal system. Alleged offenders are no longer charged or prosecuted, but ‘brought to justice’. But caution is required. The law occasionally deviates from justice. Worse, it may actually be an instrument of injustice, as in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa. Though the law may, in virtuous societies, aspire to justice, it is mistaken to bracket the two together.

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