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The Moral Aspirations of the Law - The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s RightThane Rosenbaum New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004 ISBN 0-06-018816-2, 368 pp. - The Edge of MeaningJames Boyd White Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 ISBN 0-226-89480-0, 296 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Jeffrey Nesteruk
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 103 - 108
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2006

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References

1. Thane Rosenbaum, The Myth Of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails To Do What’s Right (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004).

2. Ibid., 285.

3. Ibid., 52–53.

4. Ibid., 61.

5. Ibid., 152.

6. Ibid., 114.

7. Ibid., 251.

8. James Boyd White, The Edge Of Meaning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), xi.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid., 258.

11. Stressing this role of the law, White writes of the law as “an organized way of addressing confl icts between different ways of imagining the world.” Ibid.