As he puts it, he aims to “demonstrate that, far from being a ‘morally empty jurisprudence,’ originalism rests on a robust moral argument drawn from the natural law.” Alicea grounds ...

Main currents of modern Western legal thought: natural law theory (classical and modern forms); legal positivism (Austin, Bentham and the legal theory of sovereignty; Hart's concept of law; Kelsen's ...

This paper examines the status of law as a science through the lens of Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science. While ...