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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. What Is Law (and Why Should We Care)? -- 2. Crazy Little Thing Called "Law" -- 3. Austin's Sanction Theory -- 4. Hart and the Rule of Recognition -- 5. How to Do Things with Plans -- 6. The Making of a Legal System -- 7. What Law Is -- 8. Legal Reasoning and Judicial Decision Making -- 9. Hard Cases -- 10. Theoretical Disagreements -- 11. Dworkin and Distrust -- 12. The Economy of Trust -- 13. The Interpretation of Plans -- 14. The Value of Legality -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

This book collects together new essays by moral and legal philosophers that are aimed at knocking down a disciplinary wall that divides contemporary philosophical thinking about the nature of morality and contemporary philosophical thinking about the nature of law.