Legal positivism
Subtitle: conceptual approach
By: edited by Asifa Begum
Series: Amicus books
Publisher: The Icfai University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hyderabad, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788131418451
Subjects: Legal positivism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beheading the hydra: legal positivism and development  -- Sundhya Pahuja; title: Revisiting Raz: inclusive positivism and the concept of authority  -- Kenneth Einar Himma; title: Are constitutional norms legal norms?  -- Jeremy Waldron; title: Rights as norms and as ends  -- Gianluigi Palombella; title: Why contracts scholars should read legal philosohphy: positivism, formalism, and the specification of rules in contract law  -- Curtis Bridgeman; title: Interpretivism and conventionalism: contributions to the critical assessment of contemporary methodological legal positivism  -- Matyas Bodig; title: The discredit of legal positivism in the Italian doctrine of public law: some critical remarks  -- Stefano Civitarese Matteucci; title: The three antinomies of modern legal positivism and their resolution in Christian legal thought -- Charles J. Reid, Jr.