The Sources Thesis is a central doctrine in legal positivism which holds that a norm’s status as law, and thus its legal validity, is determined solely by its social sources—such as enactment or recognition by appropriate legal authorities—independently of its moral merits.
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POSITIVISM AND THE INSEPARABILITY OF LAW AND MORALS
Leslie Green · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2008 · 104 citations · Full text
Law, Jurisprudence, Philosophy +15
Can There Be a Democratic Jurisprudence?
Jeremy Waldron · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2008 · 46 citations · Full text
Law, Jurisprudence, Philosophy +12
Simplifying the Sources of the Law: An Essay in Law Reform
A. H. Manchester · Anglo-American Law Review · 1973 · 24 citations
Law, Jurisprudence, Public Law +11
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- MCMichel Cuypers
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University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
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1 publications
10 citations
University of Religions and Denominations
Qom, Iran
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1 publications
12 citations
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada
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1 publications
104 citations
New York University
New York, United States
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1 publications
46 citations
New York Law School
New York, United States
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Repository · 2 publications · 150 citations
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- Sociology
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- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
Repository · 1 publications · 12 citations
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- Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
1 publications · 51 citations
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- World Literature Today
WLT · 1 publications · 28 citations
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