Table of Contents:
Front Matter
Title Pages
PREFACE
List of Abbreviations
The Cover Picture
Introduction
Part One Foundations of Law's Authority
1 Describing Law Normatively
2 Law's Authority and Social Theory's Predicament
3 Law as Coordination
4 Positivism and ‘Authority’
Part Two Theories and Theorists of Law
5 A Grand Tour of Legal Theory
6 Legal Philosophy: Roots and Recent Themes
7 The Truth in Legal Positivism
8 Blackstone's Theoretical Intentions
9 Weber, Objectivity, and Legal-Rational Authority
10 On Hart's Ways: Law as Reason and as Fact
11 Hart as a Political Philosopher
12 Reason and Authority in Law's Empire
13 Critical Legal Studies
14 ‘Legal Liberalism’ or Liber et Legalis?
15 Individuals, Communities, and Postmodernism: Some Notes
Part Three Legal Reasoning
16 Allocating Risks and Suffering: Some Hidden Traps
17 Practical Reasoning in Law: Some Clarifications
18 Rights: Their Logic Restated
19 Analogical Reasoning in Law
20 Adjudication and Legal Change
Part Four The Two Senses of ‘Legal System’
21 Revolutions and Continuity of Law
22 Just Votes for Unjust Laws
End Matter
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JOHN FINNIS
OTHER WORKS CITED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX