Dogmas and Distortions: Legal Positivism Defended

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 21 (4):673-701 (2001)
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In a recent full‐length review of Matthew Kramer's In Defense of Legal Positivism, David Dyzenhaus has attacked legal positivists' accounts of adjudication and their views of the relationship between law and morality. The present essay defends legal positivism against his strictures, by arguing that he has misunderstood specific texts and the general lines of enquiry which the positivists pursue

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10.1093/ojls/21.4.673

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