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`Review from other book by this author `For a brilliant presentation and appraisal of all moves in this debate, and of the underlying movements in thought, look no further than Roger Shiner's Norm and Nature, a quite splendid book ... scholarly acumen, practical insight, lucid style, and pointed wit.'' Neil MacCormick, Times Literary Supplement 28/04/1993 ``Norm and Nature makes a substantial and valuable contribution to contemporary theorizing about the nature of law. It exposes new dimensions of the debates between positivists and their opponents and explores these with some precision, often in an absorbing and provocative way ... there is a wealth of careful and subtle reasoning in this book which deserves attention from legal theorists simply on its own merits, and which will be of special interest to positivists because it raises doubts about how comprehensive and illuminating a positivist account of law can be.'' Canadian Philosophical Reviews `'His fascinating book, Norm and Nature: The Movements of Legal Thought, argues that there is deep significance to a feeling that every undergraduate must have had in first considering the modern classics of legal theory: that there is something good to be said on each side ... There is much that is worth considering here and much of value in his deft reconstruction of the arguments of the various sides ... most challenging for present purposes is his metajurisprudential thesis: Is it sound?'' Leslie Green, York University, Toronto, American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 1, March 1994 ``fascinating book'' American Political Science Review

Shiner presents his case forcefully and, in the main, entirely persuasively ... Shiner's is a work of conceptual dissection, done with the kind of care that forestalls the hypnotic effects. The book is filled with extremely precise formulations ... Anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of the arguments about protecting commercial expression must now start with this book. Law and Politics Book Review

Shiner presents his case forcefully and, in the main, entirely persuasively ... Shiner's is a work of conceptual dissection, done with the kind of care that forestalls the hypnotic effects. The book is filled with extremely precise formulations ... Anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of the arguments about protecting commercial expression must now start with this book. Law and Politics Book Review

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Roger Shiner spent most of his career at the University of Alberta, becoming Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 1966, Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor in 1977. He also taught as Sessional Lecturer in Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law. He is now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy.

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