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On Gardner on Law in General

There is an informal club of students, young academics and more established academics who regularly check John Gardner’s website to see if he has posted new papers in progress or forthcoming articles. I have been a card-carrying member of this club for close to 10 years, and many of Gardner’s papers are old friends, such as ‘The Mark of Responsibility’, ‘Reasons for Teamwork’, ‘The Wrongdoing that Gets Results’ and ‘In Defence of Defences’. The papers collected in Gardner’s newest book––Law as a Leap of Faith––include pieces that are good friends, such as ‘Legal Positivism: 51⁄2 Myths’, which has helped me not to perpetuate as many myths about legal positivism in my teaching as I otherwise would have done. There are also some newer acquaintances, such as ‘Can there be a Written Constitution?’ and ‘How Law Claims, What Law Claims’ and, most excitingly, there are some previously unpublished papers: ‘The Supposed Formality of the Rule of Law’ and ‘Law in General’. It is a treat to have Gardner’s work on law in general compiled in a single volume. This not only makes accessible some of his contributions to edited