This is not in accordance with the main claim of legal positivism.

John Austin is best known for his work developing the theory of legal positivism.

"The legal positivism considers only what is put by the State.

Legal positivism, which states that there is no necessary relation between morality and law.

And, as we have seen, utilitarianism was closely associated with legal positivism.

This marks a first difference between interpretivism and legal positivism.

Legal positivism is the dominant theory, although there are a growing number of critics, who offer their own interpretations.

As such it had an affinity both with utilitarianism and legal positivism.

He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism.

Jeremy Bentham's modifications on legal positivism further developed the theory.

Legal positivism has been used to both liberal and conservative ends, Professor Howard said.

Thus for Kelsen, as for legal positivism in general, law can have any content.

Classical liberal and libertarian philosophers usually favor natural law over legal positivism.

He is a defender of legal positivism who argues that there are many necessary connections between law and morality.

Legal positivism is opposed to natural law theory and to legal interpretivism.

Contemporary legal positivism has long abandoned this view.

The key ideas engaged in Raz's books are norms, authority, and the theory of legal positivism.

Kelsen's is considered a very strict and scientifically understood type of legal positivism.

He is a leading proponent of legal positivism.

One important debate is within legal positivism.

The Concept of Law developed a sophisticated view of legal positivism.

Judges don't rely on natural law, but rather legal positivism combined with general principles of law.

Realism directed its challenge to the attempt to construct an autonomous science of law which was rooted in legal positivism.

Legal positivism would counter that this ethical value is derived from context and not from within the law itself.

His legal philosophy was one of Natural law that stood against the prevailing Legal positivism.