AuthorSimmonds, N. E. (Nigel E.)
TitleLaw as a moral idea [electronic resource] / N.E. Simmonds
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552191.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (x, 209 p.)

SUMMARY

Nigel Simmonds provides an original critique of legal positivism, arguing that the institutions of law, and the structures of legal thought, can only be understood by reference to a moral ideal - an ideal of freedom, or independence from the power of others


SUBJECT

  1. Law and ethics
  2. Jurisprudence
  3. Law -- Moral and ethical aspects