Luizzi, Vincent L.2008-04-222012-02-242002-01Luizzi, V. L. (2002). Law as Acts of Citizens. Proceedings of the Nineteenth World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 82, pp. 45-50.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/2758This paper shifts the focus of traditional conceptions of law from norms to norm-guided conduct of citizens and explores the viability of re-thinking law in this fashion. The project may be seen as an extension of the approach of the American Legal Realists who conceived law's essence as the activity of judges.Text6 pages1 file (.pdf)endefinition of lawessence of lawlegal pragmatismconcept of lawlegal philosophyAmerican legal realismPhilosophyPaper