Abstract: Introduction FOUNDATIONS OF LAW'S AUTHORITY 1. Describing Law Normatively 2. Law's Authority and Social Theory's Predicament 3. Law as Coordination 4. Positivism and 'Authority' GRAND THEORIES AND THEORISTS OF LAW 5. A Grand Tour of Legal Theory 6. Legal Philosophy: Roots and Recent Themes 7. The Truth in Legal Positivism 8. Blackstone's Theoretical Intentions 9. Weber, Objectivity, and Legal-Rational Authority 10. On Hart's Ways: Law as Reason and as Fact 11. Hart as a Political Philosopher 12. Reason and Authority in Law's Empire 13. Critical Legal Studies 14. Legal Liberalism or Liber et Legalis? 15. Individuals, Communities, and Postmodernism: Some Notes LEGAL REASONING 16. Allocating Risks and Suffering: Some Hidden Traps 17. Practical Reasoning in Law: Some Clarifications 18. Rights: Their Logic Restated 19. Analogical Reasoning in Law 20. Adjudication and Legal Change THE TWO SENSES OF 'LEGAL SYSTEM' 21. Revolutions and Continuity of Law 22. Just Votes for Unjust Laws Bibliography of the Works of John Finnis
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-05-26
Language: en
Type: book
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