Authority of law : essays on law and morality
by Joseph Raz.
- 2nd ed.
- Oxford : Oxford university press, 2009.
- 340 p.
Table of contents: Chapter 1. Legitimate authority Chapter 2. The claims of law Chapter 3. Legal positivism and the sources of law Chapter 4. Legal reasons, sources, and gaps Chapter 5. The identity of legal systems Chapter 6. The institutional nature of law Chapter 7. Kelsen's theory of the basic norm Chapter 8. Legal validity Chapter 9. The functions of law Chapter 10. Law and value in adjudication Chapter 11. The rule of law and its virtue Chapter 12. The obligation to obey the law Chapter 13. Respect for law Chapter 14. A right to dissent? : civil disobedience Chapter 15. A right to dissent? : conscientious objection Chapter 16. The purity of the pure theory Chapter 17. The argument from justice, or how not to reply to legal positivism.