
Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Due Process
There's a principle at work that someone can profit from a crime. But that doesn't mean that principle is going to be dispositive or have the same weight in every case, right? So if someone breaks a work contract for a higher paying job or something like that, there are many cases in which you could break a law of profit from it and it would be fine. It just means that it kind of is a denial of due process because once you're determined to commit a crime, so I guess due process has been passed to convict you. That's insane. Repealed by virtue of insanity. The background of this that was in the lighter article was that previous to this Riggs
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