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Legal Positivism

Edited by: Mario Jori

ISBN13: 9781855211582

ISBN: 1855211580

Published: June 1992

Publisher: Routledge

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

Price: Out of print

This collection of articles giving broad consideration to diverse aspects of legal positivism covers topics such as: positivism versus naturalism; the varieties of legal positivism; legal systems, validity and legal revolutions; science and what judges do; and concepts, interpretations and rights.

Contents:: Part 1 Postivism v. naturalism: the positivism of Mr Justice Holmes, Mark DeWolfe; the natural law thesis, affirmation or denial?, Felix E. Oppenheim.; Part 2 Varieties of legal positivism: pure theory of law and analytical jurisprudence, Hans Kelsen; the purity of theory, Joseph Raz; Kelsen and the exegetical tradition, Iain Stewart; the Delsenian enterprise, Richard Tur.; Part 3 Positivism B. legal realism: validity and the conflict between legal positivism and natural law, Alf Ross; legal language and reality, K. Olivecrona; law and language - an historical and critical introduction, Peter Goodrich.; Part 4 Legal systems, validity and legal revolutions: revolutions and continuity of law, J.M. Finnis; the identity of legal systems, J. Raz; material and formal authorization in Kelsen's pure theory, Stanley L. Paulson.; Part 5 Science and what judges do: Sein und Sollen, N. Bobbio; Dworkin as pre-Benthamite, D.N. MacCormick; normativity of legal science, J. Wroblewski.; Part 6 Concepts, interpretations, rights: the controversy concerning the word ""Law"", Glanville Williams; tu-tu, Alf Ross; production of rules by means of rules, Riccardo Guastini; law as institutional fact, Neil MacCormick.