John Austin
- Jurist
- John Austin
- School
- Analytical Positivism (Command Theory)
- Father of
- Modern Analytical Jurisprudence; systematic Legal Positivism
- Theory
- Command Theory of Law (Legal Positivism) — law is the command of a determinate political superior (sovereign), backed by a sanction; separation of "law as it is" from "law as it ought to be"; international law classified as positive morality.
- Quote
The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.
- Books
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), Lectures on Jurisprudence (published 1861)
- Propounded
Command Theory of Law - law as the command of a determinate political superior backed by a sanction; international law as positive morality
- Definition of law
The philosophy of positive law; the general science of law
- Born
- 1790
- Died
- 1859
- Portrait
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