In Defense of Legal Positivism

Law Without Trimmings
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926483-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

In Defense of Legal Positivism is an uncompromising defence of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Matthew Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets.

Some of the chapters pose arguments against other major theorists such as David Lyons, Lon Fuller, Joseph Raz, Michael Detmold, Ronald Dworkin, Nigel Simmonds, John Finnis, Philip Soper, neil McCormick, gerald Postema, Stephen Perry, and Michael Moore, while others extend rather than defend legal positivism; they refine the insights of legal positivism and develop the implications of those insights in strikingly novel directions. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the lae- a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kramer, Matthew H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Introduction

- PART I: POSITIVISM DEFENDED

- 2: Justice as Constancy

- 3: Scrupulousness Without Scruples: A Critique of Lon Fuller and His Defenders

- 4: Requirements, Reasons, and Raz: Legal Positivism and Legal Duties

- 5: The Law in Action: A Study in Good and Evil

- 6: Also Among the Prophets: Some Rejoinders to Ronald Dworkin's Attacks on Legal Positivism

- PART II: POSITIVISM EXTENDED

- 7: Disclaimers and Reassertions

- 8: Elements of a Conceptual Framework

- 9: Law and Order: Some Implications

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Kramer is Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and fellow and director of studies in Law at Churchill College Cambridge.