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Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin, PC, FBA (25 November 1905 – 9 August 1992) was a British judge and legal philosopher. The second-youngest English High Court judge in the 20th century, he served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1960 to 1964.
Learn about the life and career of Patrick Devlin, a prominent judicial figure in England & Wales in the 20th Century. He was a commercial lawyer, a Law Lord, a murder trial judge, and a controversial moral philosopher.
10 gen 2022 · A tal fine vengono analizzati due importanti dibattiti filosofici, quello ottocentesco tra John Stuart Mill e James Fitzjames Stephens e quello della metà del Novecento tra Patrick Devlin e...
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20 ott 2022 · Clare Devlin reveals the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father Lord Patrick Devlin, a celebrated judge. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) released its...
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Patrick Devlin, 1905-1992, was not a typical judge. The internal life is fascinating. A young boy of Irish Catholic background was sent to remote Stonyhurst College, where he was educated by the Jesuits throughout the war. He became a novitiate, aged 16, in a Dominican monastery.
16 dic 2023 · A reference work entry on Lord Patrick Devlin, a British judge who argued for legal moralism in The Enforcement of Morals. The entry explains his position, its implications, and its relation to liberalism and harm principle.
Five decades ago, two distinguished British legal figures—Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence H. L. A. Hart and Law Lord Sir Patrick Devlin—squared off in perhaps the most celebrated jurisprudential debate of the twentieth century (Devlin 1959, 1965; Hart 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1983).
