The Moral Dilemma Of Positivism

The founding text of legal positivism. Austin defines law as the command of a sovereign backed by sanctions and separates the law as it is from the law as it ought to be. First edition, 1832.

John Austin

Leslie Green revisits H. L. A. Hart's separation of law and morals and argues that legal positivism is better read as a thesis about their inseparability.

Leslie Green

A critical look at legal positivism and its moral consequences, arguing that law cut off from morality can end up serving injustice.

University of Makeni