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In the philosophy of law, ''virtue jurisprudence'' is the name given to theories of law related to virtue ethics. By making the aretaic turn in legal theory, virtue jurisprudence focuses on the importance of character and human excellence or virtue to questions about the nature of law, the content of the law, and judging. ==The topics encompassed by virtue jurisprudence== Among the topics encompassed by virtue jurisprudence are the following: # Virtue ethics has implications for an account of the proper ends of legislation. If the aim of law is to make citizens virtuous (as opposed to maximizing utility or realizing a set of moral rights), what are the implications for the content of the laws? # Virtue ethics has implications for legal ethics. Current approaches to legal ethics emphasize deontological moral theory, i.e. duties to clients and respect for client autonomy, and these deontological approaches are reflected in the various codes of professional conduct that have been devised for lawyers, judges, and legislators. # Accounts of the virtue of justice (in particular, Aristotle and Aquinas’s theories of natural justice) have implications for debates between natural lawyers and legal positivists over the nature of law. # A virtue-centered theory of judging, which describes the particular excellences required by judges. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virtue jurisprudence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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