The Legacy of John Austin's Jurisprudence

1. Front Matter

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2. John Austin and Constructing Theories of Law

   • Brian H. Bix

   Pages 1-13

3. Austin’s Methodology? His Bequest to Jurisprudence

   • Andrew Halpin

   Pages 15-40

4. “Darkening the Fair Face of Roman Law”: Austin and Roman Law

   • Andrew Lewis

   Pages 41-49

5. Austin, Kelsen, and the Model of Sovereignty: Notes on the History of Modern Legal Positivism

   • Lars Vinx

   Pages 51-71

6. Austin and Scandinavian Realism

   • Patricia Mindus

   Pages 73-106

7. Sense and Nonsense About Austin’s Jurisprudence from a Scandinavian Perspective

   • Jes Bjarup

   Pages 107-129

8. Did Austin Remain an Austinian?

   • Wilfrid E. Rumble

   Pages 131-153

9. Austin and the Electors

   • Pavlos Eleftheriadis

   Pages 155-168

10. Positive Divine Law in Austin

    • James Bernard Murphy

    Pages 169-183

11. What Is in a Habit?

    • Michael Rodney

    Pages 185-214

12. Austin, Hobbes, and Dicey

    • David Dyzenhaus

    Pages 215-236

13. John Stuart Mill on John Austin (and Jeremy Bentham)

    • Philip Schofield

    Pages 237-254

14. Austin and the Germans

    • Michael Lobban

    Pages 255-270

15. Positivism Before Hart

    • Frederick Schauer

    Pages 271-290

16. Reconstructing Austin’s Intuitions: Positive Morality and Law

    • Isabel Turégano Mansilla

    Pages 291-311

17. Back Matter

    Pages 313-316

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This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse outlooks flesh out and discuss Austin’s legacy today. A nuanced, vibrant, and richly diverse picture of both his legal and ethical theories emerges, making a case for a renewal of interest in his work. The book applies multiple perspectives, reflecting Austin’s various interests – stretching from moral theory to theory of law and state, from Roman Law to Constitutional Law – and it offers a comparative outlook on Austin and his legacy in the light of the contemporary debate and major movements within legal theory. It sheds new light on some central issues of practical reasoning: the relation between law and morals, the nature of legal systems, the function of effectiveness, the value-free character of legal theory, the connection between normative and factual inquiries in the law, the role of power, the character of obedience and the notion of duty.​

• Austin and Roman Law
• Austin's Divine Command Theory of Moral and Legal Obligation
• Austin, Kelsen and the Model of Sovereignty
• Bentham and Austin
• John Austin and Constructing Theories of Law
• Mill and Austin

• Law School, UCL, London, United Kingdom

  Michael Freeman

• Uppsala, Sweden

  Patricia Mindus

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