Abstract
This essay reviews Boštjan M. Zupančič’s The Owl of Minerva. Essays on Human Rights (Eleven Publishing, 2008). The main theses of the book are identified as: (T1) ‘Adjudication’, understood as ‘the cogent legal and public conflict resolution method’, is ‘a service rendered by the state’, and ‘the quintessence of law’; (T2) ‘In [impartial] adjudication, conflict resolution by the nature of things takes precedence over finding the truth.’; and (T3) ‘If the model of criminal procedure is to impart legitimacy, it must be a model of rational impartial adjudication.’ The essay surveys and discusses Zupančič’s arguments for these theses. Along the way, the author argues that while each thesis may be true in some carefully formulated version, none has quite the scope nor the implications suggested in the book.
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