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Title: Read only if required by your professor!
Review: This is a fairly intractable philosophical examination of the questions: what defines a legal system, what provides a legal system with legitimacy, and what are the origins of law.The author is inexcusably verbose and convoluted in discussing these otherwise interesting and important questions. If your professor has assigned this book, well, you have no choice. Otherwise, I'd recommend curling up with verbatim copies of the U.S. Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers and/or the Magna Carta, as more productive & fascinating ways to spend hours contemplating the history and meaning of the law.
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