caa a22 4500 386327947 CHVBK 20180307111700.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0953820800000054 doi S0953820800000054 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0953820800000054 Postema Gerald J. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bentham on the Public Character of Law [Elektronische Daten] [Gerald J. Postema] Bentham belongs to a long tradition of reflection on law according to which the nature of law can best be understood in terms of its distinctive contribution to the solution of certain deep and pervasive problems of collective action or collective rationality. I propose to take a critical look at Bentham's unique and penetrating contribution to this tradition. For this purpose I will rely on the interpretation of the main lines of Bentham's jurisprudence and its philosophical motivations which I have developed in Bentham and the Common Law Tradition. will not attempt further to defend it here. I wish, rather, to reflect on themes and arguments which this interpretation of Bentham's jurisprudence has uncovered. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-05), 41-61 0953-8208 1:1<41 1989 1 UTI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000054 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000054 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Postema Gerald J. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-05), 41-61 0953-8208 1:1<41 1989 1 UTI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge