Exploring the Nature of Law, 9780813240237
Hardcover
Uncover law’s true essence: a journey into legal philosophy’s core.

Exploring the Nature of Law

Thomistic Juridical Realism and the Elements of Law's Ontology

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  • Hardcover

    238 pages

  • Release Date

    16 October 2025

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Summary

This is a book about the nature of the phenomenon referred to as “law” by lawyers, legal officials, and members of communities living under law, to the extent that they conceptualize the realm of “law” as something sufficiently distinguishable from other realities and phenomena.

The book belongs to the legal-philosophical field dedicated to the study of the very nature of law, that is, to the most basic or abstract part of the philosophy of law, which is sometimes referred to as “the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780813240237
ISBN-10:0813240239
Author:Petar Popović, Kevin C. Walsh
Publisher:The Catholic University of America Press
Imprint:The Catholic University of America Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:238
Release Date:16 October 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
About The Author

Petar Popović

Petar Popović is associate professor of canon law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, co-editor of The Concept of Ius and the Nature of Law in Thomas Aquinas and the author of Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism: Prospects for a Dialogue with Contemporary Legal Theory.

Kevin C. Walsh is Knights of Columbus Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition at Columbus Law School, The Catholic University of America.

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