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Positivism Today

Edited by: Stephen Guest

ISBN13: 9781855216891

ISBN: 1855216892

Published: July 1996

Publisher: Routledge

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

Price: Out of print

Produced by colleagues in the UCL Faculty of Laws, this set of essays looks at the doctrine of legal positivism, the problems it poses, and its significance in legal history.

Subjects:: Jurisprudence

Contents:: Indeterminacy and law, Ronald Dworkin; positivism and statutory construction - an essay in the retrieval of democracy, Michael Freeman; two strands in Hart's theory of law - a comment on the "Postscript" to Hart's "The Concept of Law", Stephen Guest; legal positivism and international law, David Hutchinson; legal positivism - some lessons from legal history, Andrew Lewis; observations on method in legal theory and linguistics, Philip Roberts; utilitarian politics and legal positivism - the rejection of contractarianism in early utilitarian thought, Philip Schofield; general and particular jurisprudence - three chapters in a story, William Twining.