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Author Raz, Joseph

Title The authority of law : essays on law and morality / by Joseph Raz
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages)
Contents Legitimate authority -- The claims of law -- Legal positivism and the sources of law -- Legal reasons, sources, and gaps -- The identity of legal systems -- The institutional nature of law -- Kelsen's theory of the basic norm -- Legal validity -- The functions of law -- Law and value in adjudication -- The rule of law and its value -- The obligation to obey the law -- Respect for law -- A right to dissent? I : civil disobedience -- A right to dissent? II : conscientious objection
Summary This revised edition of one of the classic works of modern legal philosophy represents the author's contribution which has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law -- Philosophy.
Legal positivism.
Natural law.
Law and ethics.
Ethics
Law and ethics
Law -- Philosophy
Legal positivism
Natural law
Rechtsethik
Recht.
Ethiek.
Droit -- Philosophie.
Droit naturel.
loi -- morale politique -- études diverses.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191681400
0191681407