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

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