Law · Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy
A topic within Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Law.
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John Austin
Defines law as the command of a sovereign backed by a sanction, separating the question of what the law is from whether it is good, and founding analytic legal positivism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026H. L. A. Hart
Defends keeping law and morality analytically separate against Fuller, arguing that calling an evil enactment 'not law' obscures the real moral choice a judge faces rather than resolving it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026