Description: This volume is the first collection of essays in English to focus on Hume's legal ideas and it celebrates the diversity of Hume's contributions to jurisprudence. Topics are as varied as legal causation, theories of punishment and of property, contract, and legal obligation. Hume's notorious assertion of the artificiality of justice is discussed and the articles are supplemented by a bibliography of law-related articles on Hume. The juxtaposing of these topics brings out the coherence of the theory that underlies them, anchoring law firmly in Hume's overall epistemology and empiricist methodology.
