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This book presents a comprehensive defence of legal positivism on the basis of a novel account of social conventions. Marmor argues that the law is founded on constitutive conventions, and that consequently moral values cannot determine what the law is.

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... thought-provoking and philosophically sophisticated ... deserves attention from anyone interested in the philosophy of law ... [Marmor's] analysis of constitutive conventions is stimulating ... In an age tarnished by the fatuities of postmodernist mountebanks, his rigorous approach to the philosophy of law is admirable indeed. * The Cambridge Law Journal *

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1. Constitutive Conventions ; 2. Conventions and The Normativity of Law ; 3. Exclusive Legal Positivism ; 4. The Separation Thesis and The Limits of Interpretation ; 5. Authority and Authorship ; 6. Three Concepts of Objectivity ; 7. Four Questions about The Objectivity of Law ; 8. The Objectivity of Values ; Bibliography

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/24/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780198268970, 978-0198268970
      ISBN10: 0198268971
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      Law Methods, theory and philosophy of law Systems of law Ethics and moral philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book presents a comprehensive defence of legal positivism on the basis of a novel account of social conventions. Marmor argues that the law is founded on constitutive conventions, and that consequently moral values cannot determine what the law is.

      Trade Review
      ... thought-provoking and philosophically sophisticated ... deserves attention from anyone interested in the philosophy of law ... [Marmor's] analysis of constitutive conventions is stimulating ... In an age tarnished by the fatuities of postmodernist mountebanks, his rigorous approach to the philosophy of law is admirable indeed. * The Cambridge Law Journal *

      Table of Contents
      1. Constitutive Conventions ; 2. Conventions and The Normativity of Law ; 3. Exclusive Legal Positivism ; 4. The Separation Thesis and The Limits of Interpretation ; 5. Authority and Authorship ; 6. Three Concepts of Objectivity ; 7. Four Questions about The Objectivity of Law ; 8. The Objectivity of Values ; Bibliography

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