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The 36 pages that link to Legal positivism, each with the reason it gives.

• International lawRelated: It frames debates about whether international rules count as law and what gives them validity.

• Thomas HobbesRelated: Hobbes's emphasis on sovereign command and enforceable law anticipates themes in positivist jurisprudence.

• Civil law (legal system)Related: Its emphasis on identifiable enacted rules aligns with the tradition’s statutory orientation.

• Jeremy BenthamRelated: Bentham distinguished what law is from what it ought to be, clearing ground for legal criticism and reform.

• Legal formalismRelated: Positivism can support attention to authoritative sources without requiring formalist reasoning.

• JurisprudenceRelated: It separates the question of what law is from whether law is just.

• Law (legal system)Related: It explains how a rule can count as law independently of its justice.

• Is–ought problemRelated: It distinguishes what the law is from whether it ought to be obeyed.

• Substantive lawRelated: It offers an account of how substantive rules count as law within a legal system.

• Private lawRelated: It offers one account of how private-law rules count as valid law.

• Legal fictionRelated: It helps explain how an institutionally recognized fiction can have real legal force.

• Legal scienceRelated: It offers a source-based account of legal validity that legal analysis can apply.

• Legal theoryRelated: It separates the question of what law is from whether law is just.

• Philosophy of lawRelated: It separates questions about what law is from questions about whether law is just.