Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this article Professor Silverman sets out to resolve the problem of legal normativity. Professor Silverman argues that legal scholars have been prevented from transcending the limited conception of law engendered by a key dogma of nineteenth century jurisprudence: the dogma that laws are a species of commands, orders, or imperatives. As a result, even as we enter the twenty-first century, legal scholars have yet to articulate a legal architectonic that properly situates the normative commitments of a society within a post-modern legal system. An adequate theory of law must offer an account of the normativity of law: an account of how the law guides and directs human behavior.
Recommended Citation
Gregory Silverman,
Imperatives, Normativity, and the Law, 31 CONN. L. REV. 601
(1999).
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