
Legal Validity
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This book shows that validity can help a political community to foster justice precisely because validity does not primarily turn on moral considerations. Validity serves to both allocate, and limit, a distinct kind of power, a power that is key to forging valuable forms of enterprise and commitment in pursuit of individual and collective self-direction. By entrusting the capacity to decide to those who, in justice, ought to bear it, validity can enable persons and institutions to rally the resources and opportunities that only large-scale behavioural convergence can afford, thereby weaving a fabric of just relationships within the systemic framework of law.
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Content
I. An Intriguing Fact
II. The Code Idea
III. A Neglected Question
2. Legal Power
I. The Task Ahead
II. Facilities to Change Legal Positions
III. Super-Tramp
IV. Raz's Take
V. Facilities Revisited, or Robert's Home Move
3. Intention in Valid Acts
I. Four Peculiar Traits
II. The Technique of Communication
III. Codes, or How to Speak Your Mind
IV. Back to Law
V. Valid Acts That Invoke a Legal Regime
VI. Valid Acts That Circulate
VII. Unintentional Valid Acts
VIII. Failed Attempts
IX. The Technique of Legal Validity
4. Justice and Convergence
I. Duties of Justice
II. Specific Convergence
III. The Scope of Specific Convergence
IV. Marking and Enforcing
V. Law's Marking: Legal Validity
VI. Two Levels of Convergence
5. Reasons to Empower
I. Empowerment
II. Expertise and Capacity
III. Proximity
IV. The Rule of Law: Rulings
V. The Rule of Law: Rulings About Validity
VI. The Rule of Law: General Law-Making
VII. Self-Direction
6. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning
I. The Moral Need for Law's Positivity
A. Determinacy
B. Ease of Identification
C. Targeted Crafting
II. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning
III. A Function of the Acts of Others
IV. Legal Meaning Through Time
V. A Single Author?
VI. Threads in a Fabric
7. Conclusion: The Fabric of Justice
I. The Strength of Limited Power
II. Validity's Spell
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