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In Defense of Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

In Defense of Legal Positivism

  • Categories: Law

As an uncompromising defense of legal positivism, this book insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three main dimensions of morality, the book explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived by natural-law theorists as integrally connected to each of those dimensions. Some of the chapters pose arguments against major philosophers who have written on these issues, including David Lyons, Lon Fuller, Antony Duff, Joseph Raz, Ronald Dworkin, John Finnis, Philip Soper, Neil MacCormick, Robert Alexy, Gerald Postema, Stephen Perry, and Michael Moore. Several other chapters extend rather than defend legal positivism; they refine the insights of positivism and develop the implications of those insights in strikingly novel directions. The book concludes with a long discussion of the obligation to obey the law a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence.

Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Legal Positivism

  • Categories: Law

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Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 551

Legal Positivism

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Despite persistent criticism from a variety of different perspectives including natural law, legal realism and socio-legal studies, legal positivism remains as an enduring theory of law. The essays contained in this volume represent the most balanced responses toward legal positivism and although largely sympathetic, the essays do not fail to criticize elements of the tradition wherever appropriate.

The Autonomy of Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

The Autonomy of Law

  • Categories: Law

This collection of essays from legal philosophers offers an assessment of the nature and viability of legal positivism. It addresses questions such as: to what extent is the law adequately described as autonomous?; and should legal theorists maintain a conceptual separation of law and morality?.

The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 807

The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism

  • Categories: Law

Legal positivism is one of the fundamental theories of jurisprudence studied in law and related fields around the world. This volume addresses how legal positivism is perceived and makes the case for why it is relevant for contemporary legal theory. The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism offers thirty-three chapters from leading scholars that provide a comprehensive commentary on the fundamental ideas of legal positivism, its history and major theorists, its connection to normativity and values, its current development and influence, as well as on the criticisms moved against it.

An Institutional Theory of Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

An Institutional Theory of Law

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The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism re-establishes some of the dogmas of classical legal positivism regarding the separation of legizlation and adjudication and the feasibility of institutionalizing the morally neutral application of rules as an ideal capable of significant realization. This is supplemented by an analysis of the formal similarities of the morally and legally adjudicative points of view which offers the prospects of attributing a degree of moral authority to positivistic rule application in particular cases. These theories are worked through in their application to specific problem areas, particularly freedom of communication.

The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism

Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language as written. Leading philosophers who have espoused the tenets of the tradition have assumed that legal language is written and that the authorising origin of humanly posited rules/norms is inaccessible to the written legal language. Conklin's re-reading of the tradition teases out how each of these leading philosophers has postulated that the authorising origin of humanly posited laws is an u...

Prescriptive Legal Positivism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Prescriptive Legal Positivism

  • Categories: Law

This collection of Tom Campbell's essays reaches back to his pioneering work on socialist rights in the 1980s and forward from his seminal book, The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism (1996).

The Unity of Law and Morality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Unity of Law and Morality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984-01-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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