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               Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law?
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                          ABSTRACT

Instead of the question, "Do we  have  an  obligation  to  obey  the
law?," we should first ask the easier question, "Do we have  reasons
to obey the law?" This paper offers a new account of the  notion  of
what Hart called the content-independence of legal reasons in  terms
of the normative grounding relation. That account is  then  used  to
mount a defense of  the  claim  that  we  do  indeed  have  content-
independent, genuinely normative reasons to obey the law (because it
is the law), and that  these  reasons  do  sometimes  amount  to  an
obligation to so act.

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