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Ronald Dworkin identifies three central tenets of legal positivism in his work "The Model of Rules": 1) The law of a community consists of a set of special rules identified by their pedigree rather than their content. 2) Judges inevitably exercise discretion when adjudicating hard cases where legal rules run out, relying on extra-legal standards. 3) One has a legal duty only if one is the subject of a valid legal rule requiring or prohibiting something. Dworkin argues against this view, claiming that

Author
Raeesah Van De Rhede
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