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Jurisprudence Critically evaluate Fuller’s inner morality of law
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Legal Philosophy LR2S10 Critically evaluate Fuller's inner morality of law Lon L. Fuller (1902-1978), a professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard University had a strong dislike for positivist ideas, he did not agree with Nazi regime and how laws, which could be seen and inhumane and vile, could ever be seen to be valid. He went about to develop a 'procedure' and how morality should be the basis of a law. He called this 'procedural naturalism' and began a voyage to try and make a moral legal system with values. Fuller's The Morality of Law was first published in 1964; here he proposes eight 'more or less defects'1 that make a legal system invalid. He suggested that since lawmaking is essentially purposive activity, it could be understood only in terms that clearly acknowledge its vital values and purposes, Fuller stated: 'The only formula that might be called a definition of law offered in these...
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