
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 171-200
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402002823
Full citation:
, "The invisible origin of legal language", in: The invisible origins of legal positivism, Berlin, Springer, 2001


The invisible origin of legal language
thegrundnorm
pp. 171-200
in: , The invisible origins of legal positivism, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
The dominant strain of the Tradition, so far examined, has associated the authorizing origin of humanly posited laws with an author. The Tradition has offered two senses of an author. The first, associated with Hobbes and Rousseau, considered the author as the invisible creator of the institutional structure of civil society. The second, best manifested in the works of Austin and Bentham, considered the author as historically contingent. During his early and middle period, Bentham believed the legislature to be the sovereign historical author; Austin believed that the people authored the structure of legal institutions. I have emphasized in the previous chapter that, for Bentham and Austin, officials recognize the historical authors to be situated internal to the legal structure.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 171-200
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402002823
Full citation:
, "The invisible origin of legal language", in: The invisible origins of legal positivism, Berlin, Springer, 2001