Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason ebook

by Joseph Raz

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal . The final part of the book brings together for the first time Raz's work on the nature of interpretation in law and the humanities.

Joseph Raz has been teaching in Oxford since 1972. He has also held a professorship at Columbia University since 2002. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Raz's first book, The Concept of a Legal System, was based on his .

Raz's first book, The Concept of a Legal System, was based on his doctoral thesis. A later book, The Morality of Freedom won two prizes: the 1987 . Mackenzie Book Prize from the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, awarded to the best book in political science each calendar year; and the 1988 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize from the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, New York, awarded annually for the best. book in liberal and/or democratic theory that had been published two years earlier. The Practice of Value (2003), Between Authority and Interpretation (2009), and From Normativity to Responsibility (2011).

The book then addresses central questions on the nature of law, its relation to morality, the nature and justification of authority, and the nature of legal reasoning. Joseph Raz asserts that laws " are normative because they consist of rules" and therefore, the existence of rules does not by necessity require any ultimate or basic norm justification . But does a Grundnorm have to be part of this internal aspect of systemacity of law?

Interpretation without Retrieval, Law and Interpretation (ed A Marmor .

Interpretation without Retrieval, Law and Interpretation (ed A Marmor, Oxford: OUP, 1995) 155176. Intention in Interpretation, The Autonomy of Law (ed RP George, Oxford: OUP, 1996) 249286. The book presupposes the view I have argued for in earlier publica- tions, namely that the content of the law can be established without resort to moral considerations bearing on the desirability or otherwise of any human conduct, or of having any particular legal standards.

Joseph Raz. Can there be a theory of law? -. - Two views of the nature of the theory of law : a partial comparison - On the nature of law - The problem of authority : revisiting the service conception - About morality and the nature of law - Inco.

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Between Authority and Interpretation book. In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral

Between Authority and Interpretation book. In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral.

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence. It asks how the nature of law can be explained, and how the success of a legal theory can be established. The book then addresses central questions on the nature of law, its relation to morality, the nature and justification of authority, and the nature of legal reasoning. It explains how legitimate law, while being a branch of applied morality, is also a relatively autonomous system, which has the potential to bridge moral differences among its subjects. Raz offers responses to some critical reactions to his theory of authority, adumbrating, and modifying the theory to meet some of them. The final part of the book brings together for the first time Raz's work on the nature of interpretation in law and the humanities. It includes a new essay explaining interpretive pluralism and the possibility of interpretive innovation. Taken together, the essays in the volume offer a valuable introduction for students coming for the first time to Raz's work in the philosophy of law, and an original contribution to many of the current debates in practical philosophy.