In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts...

English legal theorist who posthumously influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. Austin...

language when referring to aspects of legal systems. It encompasses theories such as legal positivism and legal realism. Normative jurisprudence is concerned...

empiricism with a version of rationalism Sociological positivism, a sociological paradigm Legal positivism, a school of thought in jurisprudence and the philosophy...

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive –meaning a posteriori facts derived...

Legal Positivism (Il Positivismo Giuridico) is a book by the Italian jurist Norberto Bobbio about one of the ontological elements of foundations of law...

as well as doctrinal strains such as natural law, codification, and legal positivism. The Napoleonic Code is the most widespread system of law in the world...

main claim of legal positivism. Law is not immanent in nature nor do legal values and principles exist independently and outside of the legal practice itself...

1961 book by the legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart and his most famous work. The Concept of Law presents Hart's theory of legal positivism—the view that laws...

sometimes used to refer to the legal philosophy legal positivism, as distinct from the schools of natural law and legal realism. Various philosophers have...