The authority of law : essays on law and morality / by Joseph Raz.
2009
K230.R38 A96 2009 (Map It)
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The authority of law : essays on law and morality / by Joseph Raz.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Call Number
K230.R38 A96 2009
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9780199573561 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199573565 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780199573578 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0199573573 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0199573565 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780199573578 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0199573573 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Description
xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318409858
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
I
Law and Authority
1
Legitimate Authority
2
The Claims of Law
II
The Nature of Law and Natural Law
3
Legal Positivism and the Sources of Law
4
Legal Reasons, Sources, and Gaps
5
The Identity of Legal Systems
6
The Institutional Nature of Law
7
Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm
8
Legal Validity
III
Internal Legal Values
9
The Functions of Law
10
Law and Value in Adjudication
11
The Rule of Law and its Virtue
IV
Moral Attitudes to the Law
12
The Obligation to Obey the Law
13
Respect for Law
14
A Right to Dissent? I. Civil Disobedience
15
A Right to Dissent? II. Conscientious Objection
V
Appendices
16
The Purity of the Pure Theory
17
The Argument from Justice, or How Not to Reply to Legal Positivism
Index