Law as a moral idea /

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Author / Creator:Simmonds, N. E. (Nigel E.)
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (x, 209 p.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8838309
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ISBN:9780191701597 (ebook) : No price
0191701599 (ebook) : No price
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Nigel Simmonds provides an original critique of legal positivism, arguing that the institutions of law, and the structures of legal thought, can only be understood by reference to a moral ideal - an ideal of freedom, or independence from the power of others.
Other form:Print version 9780199552191