The Normativity of Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781009209830)

In the philosophy of law there has been a proliferation of advanced work in the last thirty years on the normativity of law. Recent theories explore law's character as a special kind of convention, shared cooperative activity, and social artifact, among other perspectives, to explain the precise way in which law provides subjects with reasons for action. Yet, for all their sophistication, such accounts fail to deliver on their promise, which is to establish how law creates more than just legal reasons for action. This Element aims to survey these views and others, situate them in a broader context of theories about the nature of law, and subsequently suggest a path forward based on the methodological continuity between analytical, evaluative, and empirical approaches to law's normativity.

Author: Michael Giudice
ISBN-10: 1009209833
ISBN-13: 9781009209830
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2024
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d