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Putting It into Practice

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This chapter seeks to apply the principles set out in the book by considering their application to some concrete examples. It suggests nine principles which we believe capture the essence of our approach. It then uses them to analyse six different scenarios.

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  1. Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Charles Foster

  2. Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Jonathan Herring

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Foster, C., Herring, J. (2015). Putting It into Practice. In: Altruism, Welfare and the Law. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21605-8_5

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