Legal Norms and Normativity

This book offers a ''genealogical'' explanation of law''s normativity. The term ''genealogical'' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law''s normativity in anything but the context of social interaction giving rise to it.

Legal normativity is brought about on a daily basis. Whether i...