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Redrawing The Dividing Lines Between Natural Law And Positivism(S), Jeffrey Pojanowski
Redrawing The Dividing Lines Between Natural Law And Positivism(S), Jeffrey Pojanowski
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Anglo-American jurisprudence, before it insulated itself in conceptual analysis and defined itself in opposition to broader questions, was properly a “sociable science,” to use Professor Postema’s phrase from his symposium article. And, in part due to the exemplars of history, so it may become again. By drawing on Bentham and Hobbes, Professor Dan Priel’s Toward Classical Positivism points forward toward more fruitful methods of jurisprudence while illuminating the recent history and current state of inquiry. His article demonstrates the virtues and promise of a more catholic approach to jurisprudence. It also raises challenging questions about the direction to take this …
Enduring Originalism, Jeffrey Pojanowski, Kevin C. Walsh
Enduring Originalism, Jeffrey Pojanowski, Kevin C. Walsh
Journal Articles
If our law requires originalism in constitutional interpretation, then that would be a good reason to be an originalist. This insight animates what many have begun to call the “positive turn” in originalism. Defenses of originalism in this vein are “positive” in that they are based on the status of the Constitution, and constitutional law, as positive law. This approach shifts focus away from abstract conceptual or normative arguments about interpretation and focuses instead on how we actually understand and apply the Constitution as law. On these grounds, originalism rests on a factual claim about the content of our law: …