John Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at Oxford University and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame
John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College. He is the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
Introduction Foundations of law's authority 1. Describing Law Normatively 2. Law's Authority and Social Theory's Predicament 3. Law as Coordination 4. "Authority" and Positivism 5. Legal Positivism's Incoherence Legal reasoning 6. Allocating Risks and Suffering: Some Hidden Traps 7. Practical Reasoning in Law: Some Clarifications 8. Rights: Their Logic Restated 9. Analogical Reasoning in Law 10. Separating Powers: Some Judicial Power-play 11. The Fairy Tale's Moral Grand theories and theorists of law 12. A Short History of Legal Philosophy 13. Aquinas on Law Updated 14. Natural Law Theory: A Sketch 15. Natural Law Legal Theory: The Classical Tradition 16. The Truth in Legal Positivism 17. Blackstone's Theoretical Intentions 18. Weber on Legal-Rational Authority 19. On Hart's Ways: Law as Reason and as Fact 20. Hart as a Political Philosopher 21. Reason and Authority in Law's Empire 22. Critical Legal Studies 23. Legal Liberalism or Liber et Legalis? 24. Individuals, Communities and Postmodernism: Some Notes Revolutions, rights and law 25. After Revolution: Courts and Theories 26. Revolutions and Continuity of Law 27. Governing Responsibilities under a Foreign Constitution? 28. Dependencies, Governance and Common Goods The logic of law making 29. Just Votes for Unjust Laws
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