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In Defense Of The Model Penal Code: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Paul H. Robinson
In Defense Of The Model Penal Code: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Paul H. Robinson
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Three Positivisms, Robin West
Three Positivisms, Robin West
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In this article, I accept and hope to expand upon the conventional consensus view that The Path of the Law is a brief for an Americanized version of Austinian legal positivism and for the "separation" of law and morality that is at its core. I also want to show, however, that the distinctive accomplishment of this Essay is its literary ambiguity: Both its explicit arguments for the positivist separation of law and morality, and the three enduring metaphors Holmes uses to make the case -- (1) the "bad man" from whose perspective we can clearly view the law; (2) the …