This article argues that the idea of the legal official is central to understanding the normativity of law. It offers a revision of two key devices used in contemporary analytical jurisprudence, arguing that the idea that law claims authority, and the notion that law either has or is represented by agents with an internal point of view, can both be reframed in light of closer attention to those who supposedly claim authority or adopt that view. That attention reveals a distinctive account of officials as institutional and relational agents, who occupy an objective ‘Official Point of View’ (OPV), from which an Official Claim to Authority (OCA) holds law out as authoritative for subjects and commits officials to the pursuit of that which would

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官方观点和官方对权威的要求

本文认为，法律官员的观念是理解法律规范性的核心。它对当代分析法学中使用的两个关键手段进行了修订，认为法律要求权威的观念，以及法律要么拥有或由具有内部观点的代理人代表的观念，都可以根据更密切的观点来重新构建。注意那些声称拥有权威或采用这种观点的人。这种关注揭示了官员作为机构和关系代理人的独特描述，他们占据客观的“官方观点”（OPV），从中官方声明（OCA）将法律视为对主体的权威，并使官员承诺追求那些会