TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raz,Joseph
TI  - The authority of law: essays on law and morality 
SN  - 9780199573561
AV  - K230.R38 A96 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Law and ethics
KW  - Legal positivism
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -