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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 October 2009
      28 October 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511527456
      9780521480413
      9780521057165
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527456
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 344 Pages
      • Subjects:
      US Law, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    Subjects:
    US Law, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    Book description

    This book represents a serious and philosophically sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory, demonstrating that legal positivism has been a misunderstood and underappreciated perspective through most of twentieth-century American legal thought. Anthony Sebok traces the roots of positivism through the first half of the twentieth century, and rejects the view that one must adopt some version of natural law theory in order to recognize moral principles in the law. On the contrary, once one corrects for the mistakes of formalism and postwar legal process, one is left with a theory of legal positivism that takes moral principles seriously while avoiding the pitfalls of natural law. The broad scope of this book ensures that it will be read by philosophers of law, historians of law, historians of American intellectual life, and those in political science concerned with public law and administration.

    Reviews

    "...the great strength of Sebok's book...is the ease with which he is able to demonstrate that so many of the great names of American jurisprudence were wrong in what they tried to teach us." Scott D. Gerber, The Law and Politic Book Review

    "...an excellent companion for collections on legal theory, history, and philosophy of law." Choice

    "Anthony Sebok's Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence is a fine and important book, and it deserves to be read on both sides of the Atlantic by all those with an interest in Anglo-American legal history, Anglo-American legal theory, and the peculiar Anglo-American idea of positive law...Sebok participates in an important modern trend. Luckily for the readers of his book, Sebok is a better historian than he lets on, and his book rises above the personal journey that he promises." Rechtshistorisches Journal

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