Positive law and objective values

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Oxford [England] ; New York: Clarendon Press (2001)
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This book presents a comprehensive defence of legal positivism on the basis of a novel account of social conventions. Marmor argues that the law is founded on constitutive conventions, and that consequently moral values cannot determine what the law is

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K331.M375 2001

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