The authority of law
Subtitle: essays on law and morality
By: by Joseph Raz.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780199573561; 9780199573578
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy; Legal positivism; Natural law; Law and ethics
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Legitimate authority; title: The claims of law; title: Legal positivism and the sources of law; title: Legal reasons, sources, and gaps; title: The identity of legal systems; title: The institutional nature of law; title: Kelsen's theory of the basic norm; title: Legal validity; title: The functions of law; title: Law and value in adjudication; title: The rule of law and its virtue; title: The obligation to obey the law; title: Respect for law; title: A right to dissent? : civil disobedience; title: A right to dissent? : conscientious objection; title: The purity of the pure theory; title: The argument from justice, or how not to reply to legal positivism.