What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it? This book argues that law
is best understood in terms of the social functions it performs wherever it is found in human …

Law being a derivative feature of reality, it exists in virtue of more fundamental things, upon
which it depends. This raises the question of what is the relation of dependence that holds …

Discussions of metaphysical grounding have recently found their way into general
jurisprudence. It is becoming increasingly common to frame the debate between positivism …

The social thesis claiming that law is a matter of social facts is the fundamental thesis of
legal positivism. This thesis, however, has at least three versions:(i) the social sources thesis …

Contra recent, inflationary views, the paper submits a deflationary approach to legal
ontology. It argues, in particular, that to answer ontological questions about legal entities, we …

Hans kelsen achieved enormous success with his Pure Theory of Law, rooted in the Neo-
Kantian paradigm. 1 This paradigm enabled Kelsen to ground his theory on a solid …

Amalia Amaya's book The Tapestry of Reason (Amaya 2015) is a sophisticated, scholarly,
and far-ranging examination of the nature of coherence in various areas of philosophy, and …

1 My comments will focus on the third section of Brian Bix's (2018) paper, and I will deal
exclusively with the problem of normativity in the context of the Hartian theory of law and …

The term ratio legis is an important term of legal practice. Thus, reflection over the general
conceptual content of ratio legis may be a window through which practitioners could see the …

Understanding legal customs is a matter of balancing an external factor against an internal
one: the former a practice, the latter a belief about the normative character of that practice …