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Theoretical Disagreement, Legal Positivism and Interpretation
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Theoretical Disagreement, Legal Positivism and Interpretation

Ratio Juris, Vol.31(3), pp.260-275
09/2018

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Ronald Dworkin famously argued that legal positivism is a defective account of law because it has no account of Theoretical Disagreement. In this article I argue that legal positivism—as advanced by H.L.A. Hart—does not need an account of Theoretical Disagreement. Legal positivism does, however, need a plausible account of interpretation in law. I provide such an account in this article.
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