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Law And Morals: The Perennial And Necessary Tandem, Peter J. Riga
Law And Morals: The Perennial And Necessary Tandem, Peter J. Riga
Seattle University Law Review
The relationship between law and morality has never been terribly clear in the American mind. On one hand, there has been the attempt simply to identify the two. On the other hand, there has existed a deep suspicion of all attempts to relate the two. Traditional Western jurisprudence, at least before Austin, tried to follow a middle course between these two extremes. It is particularly important today, when law occupies such an important dimension in American life, that lawyers once again reexamine this relationship. Law is infinitely more than procedural technique; but it is something less than a religion or …
The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau
The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau
Seattle University Law Review
Legal philosophers, especially of the positivist variety, traditionally have assumed that the proponents of natural law theory present too facile an answer to the vexed question of whether an unjust law can be said to exist when it is duly sanctioned by legal and political authority. If not disappointed by the answer itself, they have been most unhappy with the explanation that accompanies it and, indeed, are prepared to challenge the very foundations of a theory of law which pays so little heed—either empirically or in terms of pure logic—to the actual operations of existing legal systems. Kant initiated the …