Lon Fuller coined the term -eunomics- for -the study of good order and workable social arrangements.- The essays in this volume - representing most of the work of his mature years - are his -exercises in eunomics.- They are studies of the principal forms of legal order, including contract, adjudication, mediation, legislation, and administration. In addition, the volume includes several essays on legal education and the ethics of lawyering. Fuller thought of lawyers as -architects of social structure,- that is, creators and managers of the various forms of legal order. These responsibilities...

LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAW
Three lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsens theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes theory of sovereignty. He defines legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction "between the law that is and the law that ought to be" and interprets natural law as that which tolerates a combination of the two. He looks at the effects of positivisms continued influence on American legal thinking and concludes that law is necessary in a democracy as a principle...

LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAW
Three lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsens theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes theory of sovereignty. He defines legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction "between the law that is and the law that ought to be" and interprets natural law as that which tolerates a combination of the two. He looks at the effects of positivisms continued influence on American legal thinking and concludes that law is necessary in a democracy as a principle...