Law and Evil

Wojciech Załuski, Professor of Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

• Contents: Introduction 1. The double ambivalence of human nature 2. Progress in law: towards genuine ethics 3. Evolution, metaethics and the natural law Epilogue: Evil and metaphysics Bibliography Index

'Zaluski's work stands as a valuable contribution to better understanding the often neglected dynamic moments of the law and its making. By making use of a philosophically refined evolutionary approach to the law, he is not only able to identify the fundamental components regarding the nature of the legal phenomenon, he also offers a new perspective through which to investigate the eternal question of why humans tend to commit evil and the role law and its actors may play in it, as a restraining force.'--Mauro Zamboni, Stockholm University, Sweden'Wojciech Zaluski offers an erudite, insightful, and thought-provoking study of the place of evil for our jurisprudential understandings of law and justice. Situated at the junctures and dis-junctures between and among evolutionary theory, the developments of natural law and legal positivism, and metaethics, Law and Evil raises new and important questions for our understandings of evil within legal thinking and practice.'--David Fraser, University of Nottingham, UK