This book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy since the Second World War. The author probes such themes as: whether there can be right answers to all disputed law cases; how laws and other rules impact on the practical rationality of actors subject to their authority; whether general principles justifying the law must themselves be thought of as part of the law binding on legal actors; and the possibility of an interpretivist jurisprudence that is continuous with law practice in a given culture.
INTRODUCTION 1. Overview PART 1 Legal Positivism 2. Introduction toThe Concept of Law 3. Hart's Concluding Scientific Postscript 4. The Three Concepts of Rules 5. Authority, Law, and Razian Reasons PART 2 LEGAL SCEPTICISM 6. The Need for a Theory of Legal Theories PART 3 NATURAL LAW 7. Legal Principles Revisited 8. Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Legal Theory 9. Law as a Functional Kind PART 4 INTERPRETIVIST JURISPRUDENCE 10. The Interpretive Turn in Modern Theory: A Turn for the Worse? 11. Interpreting Interpretation
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