Author Description

1. Introduction: Why Legal Validity? -- I. An Intriguing Fact -- II. The Code Idea -- III. A Neglected Question -- 2. Legal Power -- I. The Task Ahead -- II. Facilities to Change Legal Positions -- III. Super-Tramp -- IV. Raz's Take -- V. Facilities Revisited, or Robert's Home Move -- 3. Intention in Valid Acts -- I. Four Peculiar Traits -- II. The Technique of Communication -- III. Codes, or How to Speak Your Mind -- IV. Back to Law -- V. Valid Acts That Invoke a Legal Regime -- VI. Valid Acts That Circulate -- VII. Unintentional Valid Acts -- VIII. Failed Attempts -- IX. The Technique of Legal Validity -- 4. Justice and Convergence -- I. Duties of Justice -- II. Specific Convergence -- III. The Scope of Specific Convergence -- IV. Marking and Enforcing -- V. Law's Marking: Legal Validity -- VI. Two Levels of Convergence -- 5. Reasons to Empower -- I. Empowerment -- II. Expertise and Capacity -- III. Proximity -- IV. The Rule of Law: Rulings -- V. The Rule of Law: Rulings About Validity -- VI. The Rule of Law: General Law-Making -- VII. Self-Direction -- 6. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning -- I. The Moral Need for Law's Positivity -- A. Determinacy -- B. Ease of Identification -- C. Targeted Crafting -- II. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning -- III. A Function of the Acts of Others -- IV. Legal Meaning Through Time -- V. A Single Author? -- VI. Threads in a Fabric -- 7. Conclusion: The Fabric of Justice -- I. The Strength of Limited Power -- II. Validity's Spell.