The authority of law : essays on law and morality /

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Main Author: Raz, Joseph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Edition:2nd ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Legitimate authority
  • The claims of law
  • Legal positivism and the sources of law
  • Legal reasons, sources, and gaps
  • The identity of legal systems
  • The institutional nature of law
  • Kelsen's theory of the basic norm
  • Legal validity
  • The functions of law
  • Law and value in adjudication
  • The rule of law and its virtue
  • The obligation to obey the law
  • Respect for law
  • A right to dissent? : civil disobedience
  • A right to dissent? : conscientious objection
  • The purity of the pure theory
  • The argument from justice, or how not to reply to legal positivism