The most famous proponent of Germanic legal positivism is Hans Kelsen, whose central thesis on legal positivism is unpacked by Suri Ratnapala, who writes:
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According to Dworkin, under most versions of legal positivism, Hart's included, there should rarely be debate about what counts as law.
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In contrast, the Huang-Lao school of Daoism rejected legal positivism in favor of a natural law that even the ruler would be subject to.
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The British legal positivism hitherto mentioned was founded on empiricism; by contrast, Germanic legal positivism was founded on the transcendental idealism of the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.
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The British legal positivism hitherto mentioned was founded on empiricism; by contrast, Germanic legal positivism was founded on the transcendental idealism of the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.
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A pupil of H . L . A . Hart, Joseph Raz has been important in continuing Hart's arguments of legal positivism since Hart's death.
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One school is sometimes called " exclusive legal positivism ", and it is associated with the view that the legal validity of a norm can never depend on its moral correctness.
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As John Gardner has said, legal positivism is'normatively inert'; it is a theory of law, not a theory of legal practice, adjudication, or political obligation.
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The criticism directed at legal pluralism often uses the basic assumptions of legal positivism to question the validity of theories of legal pluralism which aim at criticising those very ( positivistic ) assumptions.
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One school is sometimes called " exclusive legal positivism ", and it is associated with the view that the legal validity of a norm can never depend on its moral correctness.
