Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of law, virtue and justice : an introduction / Amalia Amaya and Ho Hock Lai -- Practical wisdom in legal decision-making / Claudio Michelon -- The role of virtue in legal justification / Amalia Amaya -- Education and paternalism : Plato on virtue and the law / Sandrine Berges -- Neoclassical public virtues : towards an aretaic theory of law-making (and law teaching) / Sherman J. Clark -- Confucian virtue jurisprudence / Linghao Wang and Lawrence B. Solum -- The three stages of judges' self-development / Mateusz Ste̜pień -- Motivating intentions, reciprocal specification of ends and the assessment of responsibility / Kyron Huigens -- Liberal virtue / Ekow N. Yankah -- Virtue, vice and the criminal law : a response to Huigens and Yankah / R.A. Duff -- Virtues of truthfulness in forbearing wrongs : client confidentiality qualified by legal symmetry of past and future harm / Hendrik Kaptein -- Virtuous deliberation on the criminal verdict / Ho Hock Lai -- Must virtue be particular? / Frederick Schauer -- Empathy, law and justice / Michael Slote -- Empathy in law (a response to Slote) / John Deigh -- On empathy as a necessary, but not sufficient, foundation for justice (a response to Slote) / Susan J. Brison -- Reply to Deigh and Brison / Michael Slote.