• 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...
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    English legal theorist who posthumously influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. Austin...
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    language when referring to aspects of legal systems. It encompasses theories such as legal positivism and legal realism. Normative jurisprudence is concerned...
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    Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive –meaning a posteriori facts derived...
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  • empiricism with a version of rationalism Sociological positivism, a sociological paradigm Legal positivism, a school of thought in jurisprudence and the philosophy...
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  • Legal Positivism (Il Positivismo Giuridico) is a book by the Italian jurist Norberto Bobbio about one of the ontological elements of foundations of law...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    H. L. A. Hart (category English legal scholars)
    Oxford in 1952, a position he held until 1969. In addition to his legal positivism, Hart engaged in important debates on the role of law in society, most...
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