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  title info:
    title: Law as a leap of faith
    sub title: essays on law in general
  name:
    name part: Gardner, John
    name part: 1965-2019
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)
  abstract: "How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there a special kind of 'legal justice'? Does it consist simply in applying the law of the system? And how does it relate to the ideal of 'the rule of law'? These and other classic questions in the philosophy of law form the subject-matter of Law as a Leap of Faith. In this book John Gardner collects, revisits, and supplements fifteen years of celebrated writings on general questions about law and legal systems - writings in which he attempts, without loss of philosophical finesse or insight, to cut through some of the technicalities with which the subject has become encrusted in the late twentieth century. Taking his agenda broadly from H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law (1961), Gardner shows how the key ideas in that work live on, and how they have been and can still be improved in modest ways to meet important criticisms - in some cases by concession, in some cases by circumvention, and in some cases by restatement. In the process Gardner engages with key ideas of other modern giants of the subject including Kelsen, Holmes, Raz, and Dworkin. Most importantly he presents the main elements of his own unique and refreshingly direct way of thinking about law, brought together in one place for the first time"--Provided by publisher
  table of contents: Law as a leap of faith -- Legal positivism : 5 1/2 myths -- Some types of law -- Can there be a written constitution? -- How law claims, what law claims -- Nearly natural law -- The legality of law -- The supposed formality of the rule of law -- Hart on legality, justice, and morality -- The virtue of justice and the character of law -- Law in general.
  note: John Gardner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: Law, Politics & Government
  subject:
    topic: Law, General & Comparative
  subject:
    topic: Droit
  subject:
    topic: law (discipline)
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: K235 .G3783 2012
  classification: 340.1
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    title info:
      title: Law as a leap of faith
    name:
      name part: Gardner, John, 1965-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2012
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2012941356
    identifier: (OCoLC)761380021
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  record info:
    record content source: InIU-L
    record creation date: 130207
    record change date: 20260318191721.3
    record identifier: in00005709306
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng