Raz, Joseph <br/><br/>
The authority of law :  essays on law and morality / 
by Joseph Raz. 
 - Second edition 
 - xiii, 340 pages ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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 virtue -- The obligation to obey the law -- Respect for law -- A right to dissent? : civil disobedience -- A right to dissent? : conscientious objection -- The purity of the pure theory -- The argument from justice, or how not to reply to legal positivism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199573561 9780199573578 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009017221 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Natural law<br/>Law and ethics<br/>Legal positivism<br/>Law--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K230.R38  / A96 2011