Readership: Advanced students and academics in philosophy and in law
Joseph Raz, Research Professor, Oxford University and Professor, Columbia University Law School
"...an indispensable contribution." - Scott Hershovitz, Mind
"It will certainly be a much-discussed work for years to come...Raz's book is divided into four main parts, dealing with a wide range of issues in impressive depth...The significance of the book is the fact that it is, to my knowledge, the first of Raz's books that contains extensive discussion of methodological issues in jurisprudence and issues concerning interpretation" - Peter S.C. Chau, University of Oxford, Law and Philosophy Journal
1: Introduction I: Methodological Issues 2: Can there be a Theory of Law? 3: Two Views of the Nature of the Theory of Law: A Partial Comparison II: Law, Authority and Morality 4: On the Nature of Law 5: The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception 6: About Morality and the Nature of Law 7: Incorporation by Law 8: Reasoning with Rules III: Interpretation 9: Why Interpret? 10: Interpretation Without Retrieval 11: Intention in Interpretation 12: Interpretation: Pluralism and Innovation 13: On the Authority and Interpretation of Constitutions: Some Preliminaries Appendix 14: Postema on Law's Autonomy and Public Practical Reasons: A Critical Comment Index
