TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naffine,Ngaire
TI  - Law's meaning of life: philosophy, religion, Darwin and the legal person 
T2  - Legal theory today
SN  - 9781841138664 (pbk.) :
AV  - K235 
U1  - 340.1 NAF 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Hart
KW  - Juristic persons
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Methods, theory & philosophy of law
KW  - thema
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index; 1. The question: Who is law for?  2. The debate: legalists v. realists  3. Strictly legal persons  4. Loosening the strictures  5. Moral agents and responsibilities  6. Persons of limited reason  7. The divine spark: the principle of human sanctity  8. Human and non-human animals: the implications of Darwin  9. Embodiment: humans as biological beings  10. The myths we live by
N2  - The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'what is law?' or perhaps 'what is the nature of law?'. This title poses an associated, but no less fundamental question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature: 'who is law for?'
ER  -