Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?

  • Rodion Belkovich National Research University Higher School of Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/2072-8166.2011.4.33.51
Keywords: coercion, authority, obedience, legality, legitimacy, political obligation

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of a political obligation, which stands for the (con­troversial) duty of a person, located within the borders of a given state, to obey the legal commands of that state’s authorities (commands that primarily take the form of written law). The article provides a survey and a critical analysis of the main theories of political obligation existing in the contemporary foreign legal doctrine.

Author Biography

Rodion Belkovich, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Associate Professor, School of Theory of Law and Comparative Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Candidate of Juridical Sciences. Address: 20, Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: rbelkovich@hse.ru

Published
2011-02-03
How to Cite
BelkovichR. (2011). Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?. Law. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, (4), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.17323/2072-8166.2011.4.33.51
Issue
No 4 (2011)
Section
Legal Thought: History and Modernity

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