3. For three quite differently modulated expressions of such a view, see

1. Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 397-98;
2. Duncan Kennedy, Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 Journal of Legal Education 518, 522-23 (1986);
3. Richard A. Posner, Overcoming Law (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 11-13.