Kelsen’s Grundnorm is a “norm of method”, a type of methodological maxim that must be presupposed in every legal system.

Which of the following is a common technique for undermining the credibility of an adversary’s extended deterrence commitments?

Which Realist asserted: “[A]ll metaphysics are a chimera and there is no cognition other than the empirical”

Dworkin concedes that there can be several “right answers” to a particular legal question.

According to Hart, a legal system may not properly distinguish between a person “being obliged” and a person “having an obligation”

According to lecture, Clausewitz’s remarkable trinity consists of:

According to Hart, laws possess a necessary connection to morals.

Austin’s view accounts for both law that impowers action and also law that does not impose a duty to so act.

According to Fuller, one can, if done with nuance, separate law and morality while maintaining the obligations to obey and enforce the law.

Consider the following hypothetical scenario: The United States promises to retaliate against any invasion against Latvia. Russia decides to use salami tactics by sending ‘little green men’ to Latvia to test the U.S. commitment. According to lecture, salami tactics might be useful in this scenario, because: