The law in quest of itself
Subtitle: being a series of three lectures provided by the Julius Rosenthal foundation for general law, and delivered at the Law school of Northwestern university at Chicago in April, 1940
By: by Lon L. Fuller ...
Contributors: Julius Rosenthal Foundation for General Law.
Series: Rosenthal lectures -- 1940
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy; Natural law; Positivism
Notes: Paperback edition.

Beacon series in classics of the law.
Table of contents: value: I. The choice between natural law and legal positivism.  The history of legal positivism from Hobbes to the analytical jurists.; value: II. Two modern forms of legal positivism.  Legal realism.  The pure theory of law of the Vienna school.  Jurisprudence and theology.  The ends served by legal positivism.; value: III. Systems of natural law and the natural-law method. The emotional foundations of positivism.  The possibility of autonomous order.  Positivistic influences in modern legal thinking.