Why Equity Follows the Law

Adam J. MacLeod ()
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Adam J. MacLeod: School of Law, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX 78228, USA

Laws, 2024, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Renewed attention to equity in higher education is welcome because true equity helps us to reason together well. When administered correctly, the jurisprudence of equity models civil discourse and, therefore, can teach us how to carry out civic engagement reasonably. Equitable interpretation of the law teaches us how to understand each other charitably. And equity’s deference to law teaches us how to reason well together about our practical problems. Law is the practical reasoning that we do together. Equity serves the ends of justice by serving law, rather than undermining it. These functions of equity in adjudication point toward a model of equity in practical reasoning and civic discourse more broadly. Research method: jurisprudence.

Keywords: equity; law; justice; natural justice; legal justice; civic discourse; legal education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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