In Defense of Legal Positivism
Law without Trimmings
Matthew H. Kramer
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
PART I: POSITIVISM DEFENDED
2. Justice as Constancy
3. Scrupulousness Without Scruples: A Critique of Lon Fuller and His Defenders
4. Requirements, Reasons, and Raz: Legal Positivism and Legal Duties
5. The Law in Action: A Study in Good and Evil
6. Also Among the Prophets: Some Rejoinders to Ronald Dworkin's Attacks on Legal Positivism
PART II: POSITIVISM EXTENDED
7. Disclaimers and Reassertions
8. Elements of a Conceptual Framework
9. Law and Order: Some Implications
Index