Lon Fuller and the Moral Value of the Rule of Law

Murphy, Colleen

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Lon Fuller and the Moral Value of the Rule of Law

Colleen Murphy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

January 15, 2004

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 24, 2005

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I defend Lon Fuller’s view that the rule of law has conditional non-instrumental as well as instrumental moral value. The rule of law is conditionally non-instrumentally valuable in virtue of how a legal system structures political relationships.

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Keywords: Fuller, Raz, Hart, philosophy of law, legal positivism, legal philosophy, agency, rule of law

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Date posted: October 10, 2010

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Murphy, Colleen, Lon Fuller and the Moral Value of the Rule of Law (January 15, 2004). Law and Philosophy, Vol. 24, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1690025

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