DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-T025-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/austin-john-1790-1859/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/austin-john-1790-1859/v-1
Article Summary
Although written in the early nineteenth century, Austin’s is probably the most coherent and sustained account of the theory of legal positivism. The complex relationships between legal positivism and the concepts of morality and politics are explored by him but are often neglected or misunderstood in modern commentaries.
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