Law in Its Own Right

by Stuart Toddington, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Henrik Olsen

What, precisely, is the relationship between legality and morality? Does legal validity rest upon moral validity? Are legal obligations moral obligations? For some years now schools of jurisprudential Naturalism and Positivism have become increasingly ambiguous in their responses to these questions. Olsen and Toddington argue that equivocation on the central issue here - that of obligation - has brought legal theory to the point where leading legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841130346
• ISBN13: 9781841130347
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"