Grounds of Law and Legal Theory: A Response
JOHN FINNIS
An edited version of this response to five amicable critics at a 2007 conference on Professor
Finnis's work in legal philosophy is forthcoming in Legal Theory 13 (2008) 315-344
University of Oxford Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series
Working Paper No 06/2008 February 2008
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Grounds of Law and Legal Theory: A Response
John Finnis
These responding reflections follow broadly the order of discussion in Natural Law &
Natural Rights and Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory, and often hark back to
those and other previous efforts of mine. But I hope they also move things......

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