Law often purports to require people, including government officials, to act in ways they think are morally wrong or harmful. What is it about law that can justify such a claim? This book offers an answer to this problem of law's authority.
Law often purports to require people, including government officials, to act in ways they think are morally wrong or harmful. What is it about law that can justify such a claim? This book offers an answer to this problem of law's authority.
"This work canvasses fundamental problems within the diverse disciplines of legal philosophy, democratic theory, philosophy of adjudication and public-law theory and suggests a unified approach to unraveling them. It also addresses practical questions of law and government in a …