This carefully selected set of readings presents some of the most important articles in the field. The collection is essential reading for anyone with an interest in legal philosophy.

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• Gathers together some of the most important articles in the field of philosophy of law and legal theory.
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• Complements Dennis Patterson's A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Blackwell, 1999).
  
• Represents essential reading for the beginning law student.

Dennis Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Law (Camden) and Philosophy (New Brunswick) at Rutgers University. He is the author of Law and Truth (1996) and editor of A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Blackwell, 1996). He has been a Fellow in the Politics Department at Princeton University and a Visiting Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Vienna.