What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly

Legality today commands substantial currency in world affairs, and this volume examines the struggle over its meaning in diverse practices.

The Long Arc of Legality breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural law by showing that any understanding of law as a

What should we call law when it is not the law of one or several states? Does it actually matter what we call law? How can we take into account the consequences

In his new book, Lewis D. Sargentich shows how two different kinds of legal argument - rule-based reasoning and reasoning based on principles and policies - sha