The Cambridge companion to legal positivism / edited by Torben Spaak, Stockholm University, Patricia Mindus, Uppsala University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spaak, Torben, editor.

Mindus, Patricia, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal positivism.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 788 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Torben Spaak and Patricia Mindus

Positivism, realism, and sources of law / Leslie Green

Normative legal positivism / Frederick Schauer

Legal positivism as a realist theory of law / Brian Leiter

The German tradition of legal positivism / Stephan Kirste

The French tradition of legal positivism / Michel Troper

The Italian tradition of legal positivism / Ricardo Guastini

The British tradition of legal positivism / Gerald J. Postema

Jeremy Bentham and the origins of legal positivism / Philip Schofield

John Austin / Michael Lobban

The normative power of the factual : Georg Jellinek's phenomenological theory of reflective legal positivism / Jens Kersten

Hans Kelsen's non-reductive positivism / Michael S. Green

The legal positivism of H. L. A. Hart / Matthew Kramer

From savigny to linguistic analysis : legal positivism through Bobbio's eye / Pierluigi Chiassoni

Joseph Raz's approach to legal positivism / Brian Bix

Bulygin's analytical legal positivism / María Cristina Redondo

Social-practice legal positivism and the normativity thesis / Stefano Bertea

Social facts and legal facts : perils of Hume's Guillotine / Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki

The scope of legal positivism : validity and interpretation? / Torben Spaak

What is law and what counts as law? The separation thesis in context / Andrei Marmor

The origins of inclusive legal positivism / W. J. Waluchow

Disruptive implications of legal positivism's social efficacy thesis / Brian Z. Tamanaha

The semantic thesis in legal positivism / Michael S. Green

Legal positivism and metaethics / Kevin Toh

The normativity of law / Brian Bix

An Italian path to legal positivism : Ferrajoli's Garantismo / J.J. Moreso

Gustav Radbruch's critique of legal positivism / Martin Borowski

Good order and workable arrangements : Lon Fuller's critique of legal positivism / Kenneth Winston

Dworkin's criticism of hart's positivism / Dennis Patterson

Tracing Finnis's criticism of hart's internal point of view : instability and the 'point' of human action in law / Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

Alexy's critique of legal positivism / Jan Sieckmann

Mark Greenberg on legal positivism / Barbara Levenbook

Positivism and totalitarianism / David Dyzenhaus.

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9781108636377

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