Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence

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I am writing a book! If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy), submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I won’t spam you or share your email address with anyone. Austin's theory of law: https://youtu.be/0F62gA1LGfw Hart's theory of law: https://youtu.be/Xg_9F2h89TE and https://youtu.be/4qtSYUccppc This is a video lecture that explains the central theory, for the last two centuries, in the philosophy of law: legal positivism. I created this additional lecture because I found that the standard readings on the positivism v natural law theory debate (often as exemplified by figures like HLA Hart, Ronald Dworkin, John Finnis, and Joseph Raz) were not enough to get my students to latch on to exactly what legal positivism is.