Academic

Book Announcement: Philosophy of Law by Marmour

By Lawrence Solum

Philosophy of Law
Andrei Marmor

 Princeton University Press

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9461.html

In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that make it a law? Are there some normative moral constraints on what the law can be? And can we fully characterize and define the law without assuming a moral conception about what the law ought to be? Finally, is the philosophy of law about describing what law is, or prescribing what it should be?

Cloth | $22.95 / £15.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14167-1
e-Book | $22.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3870-7

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).