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This volume collects twenty-two chapters, grouped in four parts. These include two recent appreciations and critiques of Hart's legal and political theories; a thorough appreciation and critique of Dworkin's Law's Empire, and of Raz's theory of authority and coordination; and critiques of John Gardner on legal positivism and of Jules Coleman and Brian Leiter on positivism and naturalism. Aquinas is celebrated as founder of a sound account of law's positivity. Weber's accounts of the fact-value distinction, and of legitimation, Unger's theory of indeterminacy in law, Posner's law and economics ... More
Keywords: authority, coordination, positivity, legitimation, law and economics, Hart, Raz, Dworkin, Posner, Unger
Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199580088 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580088.001.0001 |
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