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The Force of Law

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Force of Law

By Frederick Schauer

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About the book

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society's other rules.Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and drawing on empirical research as well as philosophical analysis, Schauer presents an account of legal c...Show more

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9780674368217

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Force of Law

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Hardcover

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