The Use and Abuse of Presumptions: Some comments on Dempsey on Finnis
Villanova Law Review (forthcoming)
| Abstract | This paper is a short commentary on Michelle Dempsey's contribution to a symposium on the work of John Finnis which took place at Villanova Law School in the fall of 2011. It focuses on Finnis's claim that there is a presumptive obligation to obey the law and some worries that Dempsey raises against this claim. It is forthcoming, along with several other papers from the symposium, in the Villanova Law Review | |||||||||
| Keywords | legal theory legal obligation John Finnis Michelle Dempsey Jurisprudential methodology natural law theory legal positivism | |||||||||
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