Paperback, 144 pages
English language
Published May 18, 2006 by Oxford University Press.
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The concept of law shapes the character of our community and underlies issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction explores the notion of law and its role in our lives. Can the law truly tell us what's wrong with racism or whether we should go to war? Referring to key thinkers from Aristotle to Rawls, Bentham, Dworkin, H.L.A. Hart, and Derrida, it looks at the central questions behind legal theory that have fascinated lawyers and philosophers and anyone who ever wondered about law's relation to justice, morality, and democracy.
