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THE RULE OF RULES: MORALITY, RULES, & THE DILEMMAS OF LAW. By Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin. Durham: Duke University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 279. $45.95.

Analytical jurisprudence (1) depends on a posited relation between rules and morality. Before we may answer persistent and important questions of legal theory--indeed, before we can even know what those questions are--we must understand not just the operation of rules but their operation in relation to morality. Once...

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