PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I -- WHERE LAW AND MORALITY MEET: LEGAL POSITIVISM AND THE
IDENTIFICATION OF LEGAL NORMS
CHAPTER 1: HOW MORAL PRINCIPLES CAN ENTER INTO THE LAW
CHAPTER 2: THROWING LIGHT ON THE ROLE OF MORAL PRINCIPLES IN THE
LAW: FURTHER REFLECTIONS
CHAPTER 3: ON MORALITY AS A NECESSARY OR SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR
LEGALITY
CHAPTER 4: OF FINAL THINGS: MORALITY AS ONE OF THE ULTIMATE
DETERMINANTS OF LEGAL VALIDITY
PART II -- WHERE LAW AND MORALITY DIVERGE: LEGAL POSITIVISM
REAFFIRMED
CHAPTER 5: LEGAL POSITIVISM DEFENDED
CHAPTER 6: ON THE MORAL STATUS OF THE RULE OF LAW
CHAPTER 7: ON THE SEPARABILITY OF LAW AND MORALITY
PART III -- FROM LEGAL PHILOSOPHY TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY: AFFINITIES
BETWEEN LAW AND MORALITY
CHAPTER 8: MORAL RIGHTS AND THE LIMITS OF THE 'OUGHT'-IMPLIES-'CAN'
PRINCIPLE: WHY IMPECCABLE INTENTIONS ARE NO EXCUSE
Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Churchill College, and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy.
`That Kramer's prior work in this area has already received so much
critical attention itself suggests that anyone interested in
contemporary legal theory would benefit from this book's careful
review of the contemporary lanscape of legal positivism and its
subtle and often pursuasive arguments advancing those
horizons.'
Brian D. Berry, Law & Phiosophy Program, University of Texas
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