Objectivity and the Rule of Law

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at Cambridge University; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy. He is the author of ten books, most recently The Quality of Freedom and Where Law and Morality Meet, and the Legal Philosophy Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online edition).

'The argument is ingenious, and stated with clarity … Kramer's book shows plainly that legal positivism is not to be dismissed as mere pedantic quibbling and internecine disputation of no genuinely broad import. His book offers a vigorous aid to reflection upon the real and apparent attributes of law and legal systems, and how they might relate to questions of political morality.' Political Theory

• 1. Dimensions of objectivity; 2. Elements of the rule of law; 3. Objectivity and law's moral authority.