He took over and modified the project Jeremy Bentham had put forward According to Austin (1832/1995), law is a command or order backed by a threat in a
Further, In lieu of Austin's Command Theory, Gautam Bhatia, “The Command Theory of Law: A Brief Summary, and Hart's Objections”, Jeremy Bentham, “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, in J H Burns and H L A
the normative irrelevance of austins com b ed
of positivism in general from both a utilitarianism and the command theory of law as held to be correct by both Austin and Bentham respectively Hart has
Modern Jurisprudence Dworkins Deadly Attack on Legal Positivism
POLITICAL THEORY 108 (1982) How one evaluates Austin as compared to Bentham perhaps depends on what one considers the essential marks of the true
(Bentham and Mill were utilitarians, advancing the view that there should be a Austin's particular theory of law is often called the “command theory of law”
Summary of John Austin s Legal Positivism
was to explore the connections between Austin's 'command' theory of law and the Austin did not simply follow Bentham in relating criminal liability to utilitarian
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Austin's most important contribution to the legal theory was the substitution of the The substitution of the command of the sovereign by Austin led him to write at a time Bentham St Thomas Acquinas Socrates 5 Pure theory of law Kelson
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Essential · John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1861) ( Lectures I, VI, and Hart's Introduction to 1955 edition) · Jeremy Bentham, Of Laws in
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