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03271aam a2200325 a 4500 001 2F34DD26FDB111E7BCC604F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20180120010217 008 120606s2012 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 20129354 020 $a 0199695555 020 $a 9780199695553 035 $a (OCoLC)761380021 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d CDX $d BWK $d YNK $d GUL $d RCJ $d BWX $d CGU $d IaU_L $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a K235 $b .G3783 2012 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/K 082 04 $a 340.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Gardner, John, $d 1965- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002021038 245 10 $a Law as a leap of faith : $b essays on law in general / $c John Gardner. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, U.K. : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xii, 314 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 00 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Law $x Philosophy. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075139 650 0 $a Jurisprudence. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071088 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020020517.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F34DD26FDB111E7BCC604F996128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search