For most contemporary legal positivists, legal positivism is a descriptive and not a normative
position. 1 A theorist working from a positivist perspective, most of these contemporary …

В статье исследуется нетрадиционный для отечественной литературы вариант
соотношения и противопоставления теории права и теории судебного решения …

This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections
of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and …

This chapter sets out to map the evolution of legal positivism (LP), quite aware of the fact that
it is a label meaning different things in different settings in Western legal culture. With both …

Albert Venn Dicey holds a prominent place in the English law of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. It has been said of him that he set the tone for the teaching of 20th …

As formulated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, Pancasila represents the core
values agreed upon during the meetings of the Body of Investigators for Preparatory Efforts …

Do lawyers and historians think differently about history? FW Maitland seemed to think so. In
his inaugural lecture at Cambridge in 1888 he argued that when lawyers turn to history, it is …

It is a metaphor that Vilhelm Lundstedt also used: He spoke of the legal order as a
Rechtsmechanismus. The same basic metaphor can be identified behind Karl Olivecrona's …

Legal positivism these days is considered a descriptive position, but it has not always been
so, and is not always so now. Even apart from Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Perry, and others …

This project aims to highlight the anatomy of The Law-Job Theory, one of the most influential
philosophical theories throughout Legal Realism. This theory emerged as a response to …