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100 _aJohn Gardner
245 0 _aLaw as a Leap of Faith:
_bEssays on Law in GeneralĀ  /
_cJohn Gardner
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aOxford, U.K. :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2014
300 _aXII, [2], 314 s. ; 22 cm
505 _a Introduction ; 1. Law as a Leap of Faith ; 2. Legal Positivism: 5 1/2 Myths ; 3. Some Types of Law ; 4. Can There be a Written Constitution? ; 5. How Law Claims, What Law Claims ; 6. Nearly Natural Law ; 7. The Legality of Law ; 8. On the Supposed Formality of the Rule of Law ; 9. Hart on Legality, Justice, and Morality ; 10. The Virtue of Justice, the Character of Law ; 11. Law in General
520 _aIn a series of essays John Gardner has developed distinctive and engaging answers to the central questions of legal philosophy, cutting through the technicalities of the subject to clarify and reinvigorate the main arguments about the nature of law. This volume collects that work to provide a major contribution to the literature on jurisprudence.
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