Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-06-21

A professor on the philosophy of law, Joseph Raz, has been named the recipient of

A professor on the philosophy of law, Joseph Raz, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Tang Prize in rule of law. (CNA Photo)

the 2018 Tang Prize in rule of law. The Taiwan-based Tang Prize Foundation made the announcement on Thursday.

The selection committee praised Raz’s representative works of “The Authority of Law”, “The Morality of Freedom”, and “Practical Reason and Norms”. He is an advocate of legal positivism which helps fill in what is lacking in the analysis of the philosophy of law.

Raz was born in Mandate Palestine in 1939. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for 42 years. He is now a professor of law at Columbia Law School in the US and a research professor of law at King’s College London in the UK.    [FULL  STORY]