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Hershovitz on Authority

By Lawrence Solum

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Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted The Role of Authority (Philosophers' Imprint, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    The most influential account of authority ? Joseph Raz's service conception ? is an account of the role of authority, in that it is an account of its point or function. However, authority does not have a characteristic role to play, and even if it did, the ability to play a role is not, by itself, sufficient to establish authority. The aim of this essay is to shift our focus from roles that authority plays to roles that people play ? which we can also call roles of authority ? such as chef, teacher, and parent. To justify authority, we need to justify the practices in which roles of authority play a part.
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Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).

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