David Lyons

Un análisis crítico de los principios morales contenidos en las leyes y de los límites de su aplicación en la práctica jurídica. Sólo una interpretación adecuada a la realidad social y conforme a la moral vigente puede legitimar los daños que se infligen a los ciudadanos en nombre de la ley. Los ensayos recogidos en este volumen fueron escritos a lo largo de mas de dos decadas. Los primeros seis trabajos estan dedicados a temas tradicionales de la filosofia del derecho, como el de la esencia de la ley y su relacion con los principios morales. Los ensayos restantes se centran en el problema de la interpretacion de la ley. Si este volumen tiene un tema predominante, es la irreverencia ante la ley. La ley a la que me refiero no es un ideal sacralizado sino lo que cuenta como ley en sistemas legales reales. Mi posicion ante la ley no se deriva de la teoria, sino que surgio por la colision entre unos ideales razonables y las realidades crudas ... La ley sirvio con mayor frecuencia a disposiciones sociales opresivas, injustas e inhumanas que a fines justos ... (Del Prefacio de David Lyons). Al contrario de las teorias legales que sostienen que con independencia de lo mala que pueda ser la justicia de una comunidad la conformidad estricta con las leyes existentes justificaria automaticamente la justicia formal, David Lyons sostiene que la ley debe ganarse el respeto que exige. Ademas, no podemos interpretar las leyes desde una posicion neutral frente a los valores. Al contrario, los tribunales deberian interpretar los estatutos, los precedentes judiciales y las disposiciones constitucionales en terminos de valores que puedan justificar estas leyes. A menudo, la ley priva a las personas de su libertad, de su vida o del sentido de su existencia. Por eso hay que justificar lo que se hace a la gente en nombre de la ley y ayudar a que esta este a la altura de sus pretensiones morales. David Lyons, nacido en Nueva York, estudio ingenieria y filosofia del derecho en su ciudad natal y en Harvard (Massachus

Louisiana Federal District Judge Jock Boucher returns in the second installment of this intriguing new thriller series by David Lyons.LOUISIANA FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE JOCK BOUCHER RETURNS IN THE SECOND INSTA LLMENT OF THIS HIGH-OCTANE THRILLER SERIES BY DAVID LYONS. Having killed two men with his bare hands, federal judge Jock Boucher feels hes unfit for his post on the bench. But when the president sends a fighter jet to whisk the renegade Cajun from a Mexican vacation to the White House to convince him otherwise, Boucher agrees to stay on. Trouble follows him, though, and on the night of his return to his home in the French Quarter, he is accosted by an armed street thug. Boucher defends himself. His attacker ends up dead.With the body count rising around himdespite all his best effortsBoucher and his friend Detective Fitch of the New Orleans Police Department discover that the would-be bandit has put them on the trail of an illegal arms ring. Weapons are being trafficked to foreign criminal insurgents whose violent rampage across northern Mexico is blocking the development of one of the worlds largest energy fields, and powerful U.S. interests are determined to dislodge them by any means possible. Faced with the daunting possibility of hostilities with our neighbor to the south, Boucher must find a way to avert armed conflict on a scale he never imagined possible . . . while placing himself in mortal danger.

In this explosive debut thriller, a judge from the Louisiana bayou goes up against a company on the verge of causing an ecological disaster. Cajun-born Jock Boucher has overcome modest beginnings to assume the prestigious position of U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. One of his first cases on the bench involves a scientist who has been hiding in mortal fear for more than twenty years. The fugitive claims that another judge accepted bribes and helped a relentless global energy company steal his intellectual property: a way to recover energy from below the subsea bed that could end Americas dependence on foreign oil. Boucher takes on the company and its powerful founder, risking not only his judicial career but his life. He follows a trail of cryptic clues to the bottom of the ocean, and soon finds himself the target of killersand too far from the law to ever return. Packed with suspense, science, politics, and murder, this fast-paced, riveting thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats. Ice Fire is the first in a series offered by this authentic new talent.