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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 July 2014
    16 June 2014
    ISBN:
    9780511808425
    9780521834278
    9780521542197
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808425
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 222 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.37kg, 216 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
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    Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
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    This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this book introduces the subject by stepping back from the fray to sketch the big picture, to show just what is at stake in these old debates. Legal philosophy has become somewhat arid and inward looking. In part this is because the disagreement between the main camps on the important questions is apparently intractable. The main aim of the book is to suggest both a diagnosis and a proper practical response to this situation of intractable disagreement about questions that do matter.

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