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  1. John Austin (3 March 1790 – 1 December 1859) was an English legal theorist who posthumously influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. [1] Austin opposed traditional approaches of "natural law", arguing against any need for connections between law and morality.

  2. Feb 24, 2001 · John Austin. First published Sat Feb 24, 2001; substantive revision Fri Jan 14, 2022. John Austin is considered by many to be the creator of the school of analytical jurisprudence, as well as, more specifically, the approach to law known as “legal positivism.”

  3. Showing 15 distinct works. sort by. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . John Austin has 15 books on Goodreads with 474 ratings. John Austin’s most popular book is Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham: Together Wit...

  4. John Austin was an English jurist whose writings, especially The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), advocated a definition of law as a species of command and sought to distinguish positive law from morality. He had little influence during his lifetime outside the circle of Utilitarian.

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  5. John Austin command theory obedience morality legal reasoning. Type. Chapter. Information. The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism , pp. 225 - 247. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636377.010. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2021. Access options.

  6. His book is primarily concerned with a meticulous explanation of most of the core concepts of his legal philosophy, including his conception of law, his separation of law and morality, and his theory of sovereignty.

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  8. Sep 12, 2012 · The book applies multiple perspectives, reflecting Austin’s various interests – stretching from moral theory to theory of law and state, from Roman Law to Constitutional Law – and it offers a...

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