Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: Pathologies of Legality

by David Dyzenhaus

The idea of a wicked legal system, one whose laws have been made the instrument of a repugnant moral ideology, continues to play an important part in philosophical debates about the nature of law and law's claim to moral authority. It seems to offer support for the argument of legal positivists, who insist on a clear conceptual distinction between legal requirements, deriving from social sources, and moral requirements. Does the existence of wicked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199532214
• ISBN13: 9780199532216
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"