Law and Moral Justification

Faggion, Andrea

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“…Disregarding these different outcomes as "arbitrary" would be failing to recognize the moral grounds on which actors justify different courses of action. Notions of "hospitable" versus "hostile" places are thus too vague to help grasping how and why the same 1 While Nash focuses on human rights, legal regulations in general are arguably moral claims to justice, that is, claims that are underpinned by certain assumptions about what is correct to do in a certain situation ( Faggion 2020). 2 Garfinkel's study on jurors offers a useful analytical approach to ordinary actors' socialization to legal professions and, specifically, lay negotiations between what is "legal" and what feels "right."…”

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How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”

Casati¹,

Pasquetti

2022

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In this article, we argue that migrants' socio-legal experiences in the places where they settle are formed in interaction with how local residents morally reason about the law. Specifically, based on nine months of fieldwork in an impoverished Italian town, we argue that aligning with how local residents approach the law, including when they justify disobeying it, matters a great deal for migrants' lives. Focusing on the workings of a reception center for asylum seekers, we first show how local residents regularly support various violations of the law by referring to alternative-and in their view higher-principles of justice circulating in the town. Migrants find themselves caught up in these local moral tensions, at times even becoming involved in illegal practices unbeknownst to them. We then show how migrants' reactions to the marginality of the law in the town affect their access to local support. Those who align with local nonlegal moral norms obtain access to opportunities, while those who in similar situations invoke the primacy of legality tend to experience ostracization. By investigating the dynamic role of local moralities in situated interaction, this article contributes to both the sociology of morality and the sociology of migration. It shows how moral decision-making processes can and should be studied in their collective dimension, beyond individual-level experiments. Further, with its focus on processes of moral (mis)alignment, it allows us to grasp how place matters for migrants' lives beyond overly general notions of 'hostile' versus 'hospitable' localities.

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How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”

Casati¹,

Pasquetti

2022

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“…Um deles passa por um filtro moral, mas o outro é apenas um instrumento de maximização da opressão de uma parcela da população por parte de outra (cf. FAGGION, 2019FAGGION, , 2020aFAGGION, , 2020b. Um positivista considerará que a imoralidade extrema do último não depõe contra a sua legalidade, de tal maneira que ele contará esse sistema como uma instância de sistema jurídico.…”

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Positivismo normativo e o debate que importa

Faggion

2023

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Eu argumento que o debate conceitual em torno da tese positivista da separabilidade entre direito e moralidade não tem relevância prática ou teórica, na medida em que, primeiro, as consequências morais benéficas que alguns positivistas julgaram decorrer da adoção da tese da separabilidade podem decorrer plausivelmente da mesma forma de sua rejeição e, segundo, os dados disponíveis para a análise do teórico do direito se coadunam tanto com o conceito positivista de direito quanto com conceitos rivais, até porque a decisão pelos dados que contam já depende da teoria que adotamos. Em outras palavras, eu trato o conceito de direito como um artefato e ofereço algumas evidências de que nada de relevo dependa de como moldaremos exatamente esse artefato. Após ter argumentado nesse sentido, eu concluo o artigo sugerindo que o debate que importa no âmbito da teoria analítica do direito diz respeito ao positivismo normativo como um modelo de decisão prescrito às autoridades.

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Law and Moral Justification

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How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”

How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”

Positivismo normativo e o debate que importa

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