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The Legal Right to Disobey Law

A Natural Law Approach to Free Speech and Civil Disobedience

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This is a jurisprudential case for the legal right to disobey laws deemed grossly unjust, and a guidebook on how people may lawfully practise civil disobedience. Published by Sidestream Press and printed by Oxford Printery.

The Legal Right to Disobey Law, second edition, front and back covers.

The Legal Right to Disobey Law

Under what circumstances is it permissible to disobey a law adopted in accordance with the requirements of the legal system? Taking a natural law approach, Augusto Zimmermann and Gabriël Moens trace the right to resist from classical, biblical and early modern sources through to the challenges of modern democracies.

Free speech, freedom of the press, the erosion of the rule of law, and the encroachments of an increasingly authoritarian state: the authors anchor the right to resist in natural law, an objective moral standard every government must obey.

A lucid, rigorous, and wide-ranging exploration of higher law jurisprudence and its enduring relevance. Stefano Salemi · University of Oxford

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232pp
Trade paperback
Royal octavo, sewn & bound
Galliard
Typeset by hand
A classical reading page
2026
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Contents

Fourteen chapters, from the classical and Christian foundations of the higher law to free speech, the press, democracy and the rule of law today.

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The Legal Right to Disobey Law, second edition, front and back.
The Legal Right to Disobey Law
Zimmermann & Moens
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  • EditionSecond, with index
  • FormatTrade paperback, 232 pp
  • TypesetGalliard
  • ISBN978-1-7646444-2-6
  • PublisherSidestream Press

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The authors

Professor Augusto Zimmermann

PhD (Mon.), LLM, LLB (Hon.), CIArb, DipEd

A former Law Reform Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, and the Foundation Dean and Professor of Law at Alphacrucis University College.

Professor Gabriël A. Moens AM

JD (Leuven), LLM (North-Western), PhD (Sydney), GCEd (Qld), MBA (Murdoch), MAppL (COL)

Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor of Law at Curtin University.

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