Morality and the Making of Law: Four Questions

Jurisprudence 1 (2):267-275 (2010)
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I address four questions that arise out of Nigel Simmonds's book, Law as a Moral Idea : Is politics a moral idea too? Is there any such thing as law making? Is there a right answer to every legal dispute? What justifies a judicial decision? To each question I propose an answer that shares much with Simmonds's views, but diverges. Simmonds is right to call law a 'moral idea', and that implies a connection between law and a moral ideal; in my view, the connection is compatible with a necessary connection between law and the morally non-ideal

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Timothy Endicott
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Reply: The Nature and Virtue of Law.N. E. Simmonds - 2010 - Jurisprudence 1 (2):277-293.

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