Tabla de Contenidos: “…The paradox of legal authority -- Authority and the natural law -- Political authority -- Legal authority -- Authority within and beyond the state…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legitimate authority -- The claims of law -- Legal positivism and the sources of law -- Legal reasons, sources, and gaps -- The identity of legal systems -- The institutional nature of law -- Kelsen's theory of the basic norm -- Legal validity -- The functions of law -- Law and value in adjudication -- The rule of law and its virtue -- The obligation to obey the law -- Respect for law -- A right to dissent? …”

“…Legal Philosophical Library : An International Series on Philosophy and Theory of Law…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…David Hume and the 18th-century conception of natural law / Philip Milton -- David Hume and the empiricist theory of law / Sheldon Wein -- David Hume's legal theory: the significance of general laws / Neil McArthur -- The place of Hume in the history of jurisprudence / Alfons Beitzinger -- David Hume and justice / Ian F.G. …”

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