@article{960433,
      recid = {960433},
      author = {Bertea, Stefano, and Pavlakos, George.},
      title = {New essays on the normativity of law /},
      publisher = {Hart Pub.,},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      pages = {ix, 325 p.},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {An important part of the legal domain has to do with  rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of  notions such as norm, obligation, duty, and right. These  require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law.  Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as a central  feature of law lying at the heart of any comprehensive  legal-theoretical project. The essays collected in this  book are meant to further our understanding of the  normativity of law. More specifically, the book stages a  thorough discussion of legal normativity as approached from  three strands of legal thought that are particularly  influential and which play a key role in shaping debates on  the normative dimension of law: the theory of planning  agency, legal conventionalism and the constitutivist  approach. While the essays presented here do not aspire to  give an exhaustive picture of these debates--an aspiration  that would be, by its very nature, unrealistic--they do  provide the reader with some authoritative statements of  some widely discussed families of views of legal  normativity. In pursuing this objective, these essays also  encourage a dialogue between different traditions of study  of legal normativity, stimulating those who would not  otherwise look outside their tradition of thought to engage  with new ideas and, ultimately, to arrive at a more  comprehensive account of the normativity of law.--Provided  by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/960433},
}