Jurisprudence: Political jurisprudence - Positivism

Essay in OA Jus Politicum 16 which "presents an overview of key elements of the discipline of political jurisprudence. It explains the significance of such basic concepts as politics, state, constitution to the building of political authority and examines, in particular, the significance of two different concepts of power: potestas, the power generated by being-in-common and experienced as ‘power to’, and potentia, the ability to achieve intended effects, experienced as ‘power over’."

Open access article

"The focus of this project is on the proper scope of the judicial power within the constitution. Judicial overreach increasingly threatens the rule of law and effective, democratic government. The project aims to address this problem – restoring balance to the Westminster constitution – by articulating the good sense of separating judicial and political authority. In other words, the project aims to understand and correct the undue rise in judicial power by restating, for modern times and in relation to modern problems, the nature and limits of the judicial power within our tradition and the related scope of sound legislative and executive authority."

Open access. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

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OA article by F Schauer, (November 24, 2009). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-01,

Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

OA Digital scan of orginal edition.

Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

OA site. The Bentham Project, based at the Faculty of Laws at UCL, is responsible for the publication of a new critical edition of The Works of Jeremy Bentham.