Carol S. Steiker

Carol S. Steiker is an American legal scholar. She is the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Quotes Social welfare theory solves the conundrum of mercy's relationship to justice because it denies that either justice or mercy is an independent good; indeed, it denies the possibility of moral theory altogether, except perhaps as a useful proxy or shorthand for the workings of the calculus of social welfare. Clearly, this theory, in its exclusive form, faces a daunting challenge from our deep-seated moral intuitions and thousands of years of human history, not to mention institutional challenges in the feasibility of performing a plausible calculus of social welfare within the structures of the criminal justice system. "Tempering or Tampering?", in A. Sarat and N. Hussain (eds.) Forgiveness, Mercy, and Clemency (Stanford, 2007), pp. 28–9 External links Q105627287 Category:Living people Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Harvard University faculty