Description: This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the law--a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence.
Review Quotes: "In his Defense of Legal Positivism, Matthew H. Kramer provides an exhaustive defense of legal positivism against those who attribute a necessary relationship between law and morality."--The Law and Politics Book Review