Legal positivism is a school of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence which holds that law is constructed from social facts, without regards to...

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 such theories of jurisprudence as legal positivism, holds that there is no necessary connection...

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...

a modern reworking of it. Legal positivism, which is the view that law depends primarily on social facts. Legal positivism has traditionally been associated...

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...

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