The nature of law
Subtitle: philosophical issues in conceptual jurisprudence and legal theory
By: by Kenneth Einar Himma, (editor)
Series: University casebook series; University casebook series
Publisher: Foundation Press Thomson/West
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9781599414119
Subjects: Philosophy; Law; Jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-xii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The nature of law : positivism, natural law, and Ronald Dworkin; title: Classical natural law theory; title: Early positivism; title: Central tenets of modern Hartian positivism; title: Towards a "third" theory of law : Dworkin's attack on positivism; title: Contemporary natural law theories; title: Dworkin's third theory; title: Law, morality, and conventional criteria of validity : contemporary positivism and Dworkin; title: Inclusive and exclusive legal positivism; title: Pt. 2. Authority, practical guidance and the possibility of moral criteria of validity; title: Authority and the possibility of moral critieria of validity; title: Practical guidance and the possibility of moral criteria of validity; title: Pt. 3. General problems in the conceptual theory of law : obligation, objectivity, and the methodology of conceptual analysis; title: The problem of legal obligation; title: Legal objectivity; title: The methodology of conceptual analysis.