Inner Morality of Law
- Theory
- Inner Morality of Law
- Jurist
- Lon Fuller
- Description
Fuller argues law has an inner morality — eight procedural requirements a system must meet to qualify as law: generality, promulgation, prospectivity (non-retroactivity), clarity, non-contradiction, possibility of compliance, constancy through time, and congruence between official action and declared rules. Total failure in these makes a system not merely bad law but not law at all — his reply to Hart's positivist separation of law and morality.