Philosophy of law
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Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy and jurisprudence which studies basic questions about law and legal systems, such as "what is law?", "what are the criteria for legal validity?," "what is the relationship between law and morality?", and many other similar questions.
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Notable philosophers of law
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Thomas Aquinas
- Francisco Suarez
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Hugo Grotius
- Benedict de Spinoza
- John Locke
- John Austin (legal philosophy)
- Frederic Bastiat
- Jeremy Bentham
- Emilio Betti
- Joseph Boyle
- António Castanheira Neves
- Jules Coleman
- Ronald Dworkin
- John Finnis
- Lon L. Fuller
- Leslie Green (philosopher)
- Robert P. George
- Germain Grisez
- H.L.A. Hart
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Rudolf Jhering
- Immanuel Kant
- Hans Kelsen
- Kenneth Kipnis
- Joel Feinberg
- David Lyons
- Neil MacCormick
- Karl Marx
- William E. May
- Adolf Merkl
- Jeffrie Murphy
- Gustav Radbruch
- Joseph Raz
- Jeremy Waldron
- Friedrich Karl von Savigny
- Robert Summers
- Roberto Unger
- John Rawls
- Pierre Schlag
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See also
- Critical legal studies
- Constitutional economics
- Judicial activism
- Jurisprudence
- Law and economics
- Law
- Legal formalism
- Legal positivism
- Legal realism
- Libertarian theories of law
- Natural law
- Rule of law
- Rule according to higher law
- Virtue jurisprudence
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