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Can the law be identified independently of morality?
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Can the law be identified independently of morality? Amy Bond Seminar Group H I am going to examine whether the law, can in fact, be identified independently or morality by examining various legal concepts and whether they can be justified in today's society. The question of the concept of law - whether law is or is not necessarily conceptually connected to morality - will determine one's answer to questions of law. The question of the nature of the intersection between law and morality is perhaps most obvious to non legal theorists when determining the law in a hard case, but in fact the concept of law question is logically prior to any determination of 'the law' in a case: what counts as law is dependent on one's conception of law. With regard to law, for the moment it will be enough to define law as 'the enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance...
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