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Overview of Legal Positivism by Nawaz Sharif is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The document provides an overview of legal positivism, including its key concepts, history, and proponents. It discusses how legal positivism views law as emanating from social rules created by political authorities, rather than from natural law or morality. The summary highlights that legal positivism argues laws are expressions of sovereign power alone, and examines thinkers like Austin, Hobbes, and Kelsen who advocated separating law from morality. It also contrasts positivism with natural law approaches

Author

Nawaz Sharif

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EN