In Defense of Legal Positivism: Law Without Trimmings

This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the law--a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence.


Author: Matthew H. Kramer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/22/2003
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780199264834

About the Author

Matthew Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Churchill College (Cambridge), and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy.

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