Book Launch: The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism
- Date: 7 May 2021, 11:30–12:30
- Location: Zoom, https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/69640851498
- Type: Lecture
- Lecturer: Professor Torben Spaak, Stockholm University. Professor Patricia Mindus, Uppsala University.
- Organiser: The International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
- Contact person: Daniel Hedlund
The book will be presented at the annual IVR conference, which this year carries the title: Reflections on the Law – Perils, Potentials, Perspectives.
Legal positivism is one of the fundamental theories of law. What does it submit?
Why it is relevant? What are its fundamental ideas, its history and major
theorists? How does it relate to justice and ethics? The editors present the
thirty-three chapters composing the volume and discuss the current
developments and influence of legal positivism, as well as on criticisms moved
against it.