1. The irony of law shares in the more general irony of authority: that acting in obedience to an authority may be justified by the authority's capacity to serve some purpose, whether the authority is doing so or not. It is analogous to the irony of parenting (which involves, from the child's point of view, tensions between the wisdom and the danger of doing what the parent says and, from the parent's point of view, tensions between the need to guide the child and the need to let the child develop her autonomy). Even human friendship involves a related form of irony;unlike the law itself) needs to account for what is good and bad about law. Ironically, the two go together,2010
2. How to Speak the Truth;Timothy Endicott;American Journal of Jurisprudence,2001
3. Administrative Law