Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: Natural, Customary, and Positive Law 1
7. 1. Positive Language and Positive Law in Plato’s 24
8. 2. Law’s Positivity in the Natural Law Jurisprudence of Thomas Aquinas 48
9. 3. Positive Language and Positive Law in Thomas Hobbes 117
10. 4. Positive Law in the Analytical Positivism of John Austin 169
11. Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Positive Law 212
12. Index 227