Legality

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Shapiro has produced a work of enduring significance. -- Frederick Schauer Yale Law Journal 20101201 I feel confident that Legality is one of the very best boks in general jurisprudence in many, many years...I suspect that Legality will become a standard work for students of law and philosophy...Everyone who engages in the academic study of law should read Legality--it is that important. -- Lawrence B. Solum Legal Theory blog 20101211 This book is...imaginative, incisive, fair to interlocutors, and written with elegance and wit...It is essential reading for philosophers of law. -- Mark C. Murphy Law and Philosophy 20110501 Rich and vibrant with jurisprudential ambition...There are lots of riches in Scott Shapiro's book...I have not been able to convey how well this book is written or how much light the author is able to shed along the way on various issues in the philosophy of law...It shows that the idea of planning can indeed cast light on the problems of jurisprudence without necessarily blinding us to other analogies and other sources of insight. -- Jeremy Waldron Michigan Law Review 20110401 [Legality] is a sympathetic, accessible, and highly readable exposition of the theories that have preceded it. It is now one of the best single-authored introductions to the subject. It is also a significant contribution. Moreover, it is an apologia for the subject itself, and for the method of conceptual analysis as a way of uncovering the nature and grounds of law...Both as a defense and example of analytic jurisprudence...this book is unrivalled. -- William A. Edmundson Jurisprudence 20110601 Scott Shapiro's Legality is a rich and ambitious discussion of law's fundamental nature. Almost every page is provocative, touching upon many of the most interesting, complicated and controversial areas within this area of inquiry. -- Stefan Sciaraffa Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 20110901 It cannot be doubted that Shapiro's book, which clarifies and advances analytical jurisprudence, is bound to be a classic text. -- Ekow Yankah Jotwell 20110912 Highly recommended. Choice 20110801 Legality makes a contribution to the field that no student of jurisprudence can ignore. -- Judith Baer Political Science Quarterly 20111201