Two versions of it are Bentham's Command Theory, and Hart's Social Convention Theory.
One of its staunchest critiques came in Taking Rights Seriously, by Ronald Dworkin, while one of its modern architects is Hans Kelsen. Two of its important theses are the pedigree thesis and the separability thesis. Two versions of it are Bentham's Command Theory, and Hart's Social Convention Theory. Fuller argued that the latter cannot be true because the law is subject to eight principles of internal morality. This theory asserts that issues of moral law are separate from the law itself, and that law is the product of contingent societal facts. FTP, identify this idea which arose in opposition to natural law theory, most famously stated by John Austin.
One of its staunchest critiques came in Taking Rights Seriously, by Ronald Dworkin, while one of its modern architects is Hans Kelsen.
legal positivism