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Otherwise than, for instance, private law, constitutional law, or criminal law, philosophy of law does not deal with a particular subfield of law. Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy and, more in particular, the branch that deals with philosophical questions about law. Examples of such questions are as follows:
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Hage, J. (2014). Philosophy of Law. In: Hage, J., Akkermans, B. (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_14
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