TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raz, Joseph
TI  - Authority of law: essays on law and morality
SN  - 9780199573578
U1  - 340.112 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford university press
KW  - Law--Philosophy
KW  - Legal positivism
KW  - Natural law
N1  - 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
ER  -