When Should Law Forgive? Audiobook (Free)

The power of forgiveness in a day and time of resentment.

Crimes and violations of the law require abuse, and our legal program is established to punish, but imagine if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy-a fresh begin for debtors-were available to people convicted of offences? Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection of regulations, justice, and forgiveness, requesting whether the laws should encourage people to forgive, and when about When Should Law Forgive? courts, open public officials, and specific laws should forgive.

Who gets the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what conditions? Minow tackles these foundational issues by exploring three questions:

– What will the international response to kid soldiers show us about the legal treatment of juvenile offenders in america?

– Why will be the laws and regulations surrounding corporate personal debt even more forgiving than those regulating American college student and consumer debt, and sovereign debt in the developing globe?

– When perform law’s equipment of forgiveness, amnesties, and pardons strengthen justice, serenity, and democracy (think South Africa), so when do they undermine law’s guarantee of fairness (think Joe Arpaio)?