TY  - BOOK
AU  - Himma,Kenneth Einar
TI  - Coercion and the nature of law
T2  - Oxford legal philosophy
SN  - 9780191888984 (ebook) :
AV  - K240 
U1  - 340.1 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Duress (Law)
N1  - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Coercion and the Nature of Law argues that it is a conceptually necessary condition for something to count as a system of law according to our conceptual practices that it authorizes the imposition of coercive sanctions for violations of some mandatory norms governing non-official behaviour (the Coercion Thesis). The book begins with an explication of the modest approach to conceptual analysis that is deployed throughout. The remainder of the book is concerned to show that an institutional normative system is not reasonably contrived to do anything that law must be able to do for us to make sense of why we adopt systems of law to regulate non-official behaviour, unless we assume that mandatory norms governing that behavior are backed by the threat of a sovereign
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854937.001.0001
ER  -