#1330 Katrina Sifferd: The Ethics of Law, Punishment, and Criminal Responsibility

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Katrina Seiford. She's a professor of philosophy, interim in in the school of arts, humanities, and social sciences. And St and Darch at Elmhurst University. And today we're going to talk about the ethics of law. Панішмент морол кримінал респонсабіліті. and a few other related topics. So, Doctor Seaford, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.

Thank you so much. Okay, so uh to introduce the uh conversation here. What is the ethics of law? I mean in what ways does Ethics apply to law and What kinds of questions do you explore there?

So there's lots of different ways that ethics interacts with law, and I do not work on most of them. Right. So there's There's Ethics. In well, there's ethical concerns about how the law has authority over us and whether the law has authority over us and what sorts of behaviors the law has the right to kind of police, right? Um there's ethics in areas of law like tax, right? Is a progressive tax or a regressive tax more ethical. There's ethical concerns when it comes to kind of structural justice or transitional justice.

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