ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the proposed eight laws and describes the narrower perspective of legal demands and legal interests. It provides some very hesitant and very tentative suggestions about the kind of framework for analysis of voluntary associations that might amplify Professor Fuller's treatment. Professor Fuller offers two principles of human association. One he calls that of shared commitment, the other, described as an opposing one, the legal principle. He traces their relative impact, weighs their force, and evaluates their potential in human association, and finally states eight laws governing their interrelations. The chapter inquires how far the principles Professor Fuller proposes as central—shared commitment and the legal principle—can carry one in providing understanding of human association and laws for its proper regulation where necessary. There are indications that Professor Fuller casts them for far-reaching action. Shared commitment and the legal principle are forces in a state of tension, used as an explanatory framework.
