{"id":5064,"date":"2021-12-18T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2021-12-18T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:59:39","slug":"atiq-on-legal-positivism-and-the-moral-origins-of-legal-systems-cornelllaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/atiq-on-legal-positivism-and-the-moral-origins-of-legal-systems-cornelllaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiq on Legal Positivism and the Moral Origins of Legal Systems @CornellLaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emad H. Atiq, Cornell University Law School; Cornell University Sage School of Philosophy, is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3969405&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal:history:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Positivism and the Moral Origins of Legal Systems<\/a> in the Canadian Journal of Law &amp; Jurisprudence. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legal positivists maintain that the legality of a rule is fundamentally determined by social facts. Yet for much of legal history, ordinary officials used legal terminology in ways that seem inconsistent with positivism. Judges regularly cited, analyzed, and predicated their decisions on the \u2018laws of justice\u2019 which they claimed had universal legal import. This practice, though well-documented by historians, has received surprisingly little philosophical attention; I argue that it invites explanation from positivists. After taxonomizing the positivist\u2019s explanatory options, I suggest that the most viable option appeals to conceptual change: classical Romans, early modern Europeans, founding-era Americans were not using \u2018law\u2019 (or \u2018lex\u2019 or \u2018jus\u2019) to refer to the subject matter of contemporary legal philosophy. But the strategy is costly. It renders positivism\u2019s truth surprisingly parochial. And it supplies new reasons for doubting positivist accounts of contemporary practices, including the treatment of moral principles in modern adjudication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emad H. Atiq, Cornell University Law School; Cornell University Sage School of Philosophy, is publishing Legal Positivism and the Moral Origins of Legal Systems in the Canadian Journal of Law &amp; Jurisprudence. Here is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,400],"tags":[489,519,132],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-philosophy","category-legal-philosophy","tag-law-and-philosophy","tag-legal-philosophy","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1jG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}