Abstract
It was with the publication in 1940 of The Iaw in Quest of Itself1 that Fuller first established his reputation as a defender of the secular tradition of natural law in legal philosophy. The Law in Quest of Itself marked the start of a series of major statements about the merits of this tradition in jurisprudence. These culminated in the Storrs Lectures which Fuller delivered at the Yale Law School in 1963, and which he later published as The Morality of Law (1964).2 In The Morality of Law, Fuller expounded his celebrated thesis that the formal administration of the rule of law was governed by certain procedural principles of legal morality, and that these procedural principles secured precisely the internal connection between law and morality affirmed by the great classical and medieval philosophers of natural law. In this way, the book made clear most of the respects in which Fuller called into question the distinguishing theoretical claims about law and its moral justification advanced by jurists, like Austin, Kelsen and Hart, who belonged to the tradition of modern legal positivism.
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Covell, C. (1992). Lon L. Fuller and the Defence of Natural Law. In: The Defence of Natural Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22359-6_2
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