What is it about?
This is a review of Fred Schauer's book, The Force of Law, in which I focus on Schauer's legal anti-essentialism, that is, the view that law has no necessary properties shared by all legal systems.
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Why is it important?
SChauer is a prominent legal scholar who maintains that coercion is a ubiquitous, though not necessary, feature of law, and the question of law's necessary properties, if any, is a very basic question in legal philosophy.
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I find metaphysical questions about law interesting and important, and this was an opportunity to deal with such questions.
Professor Torben H Spaak
Stockholm University
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This page is a summary of: Schauer's Anti-Essentialism, Ratio Juris, May 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/raju.12123.
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