The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism.

• Foreword


• Introduction


• Issues in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy: The Nature of Law, Practical Reason, Authority, Sources of and Gaps in the Law


• 1: Robert Alexy: The Nature of Arguments about the Nature of Law


• 2: Rüdiger Bittner: Stronger Reasons


• 3: Bruno Celano: Are Reasons for Action Beliefs?


• 4: Jeremy Waldron: Authority for Officials


• 5: J. E. Penner: Legal Reasoning and the Authority of Law


• 6: Timothy Endicott: Raz on Gaps


• Perspectives on Liberal Society: Equality, Incommensurability, Group Rights, and Multiculturalism


• 7: Hillel Steiner: Equality, Incommensurability, and Rights


• 8: Andrei Marmor: The Intrinsic Value of Economic Equality


• 9: Lukas H. Meyer: Past and Future


• 10: James Griffin: Group Rights


• 11: Yael Tamir: Against Collective Rights


• 12: Bernhard Peters: Understanding Multiculturalism


• 13: Will Kymlicka: Liberal Theories of Multiculturalism


• Joseph Raz: Response


• Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Raz

Lukas H. Meyer is at the University of Bremen. He is Full-Time University Assistant in Political Philsophy (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent),
Thomas W. Pogge received his Phd in philosophy from Harvard, and has since been teaching moral and political philosophy at Columbia University.
Stanley Paulson is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis