weekly reflection journal

This journal is an opportunity for you to process and expand upon your notes from class and the textbook, or respond to any particular announced questions. By expand, I mean more than reproducing whatever I may put on the board, through the inclusion of comments made in class and your thoughts on the material after class. In particular, I am interested in those concepts or examples you find most helpful, and any questions you may have that we did not get a chance to address in class, or did address but not to your satisfaction.

Minimum Requirements:

At least 500 words of relevant material

Correct grammar and spelling

Submission by 11:59 PM on Tuesday of the following week. While every submission will contribute to your overall Weekly Journal grade, you may not earn more than 100% in this category.

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Week 6: Legal Positivism

Priel, “Towards Classical Legal Positivism”

Towards Classical Legal Positivism

Legal positivism is defined to be a discipline of coherent jurisprudence that focuses on the laws commanding humanity and human beings and moral judgment. Notably, legal positivism is based on the argument that human beings are governed by laws which are not based on morality and the natural law but because the legitimate laws set up by the society need them to bring law and order.

Remarkably, classical legal positivism argues that laws are not as effective as planned to be a higher expression of the authorities that created them if they conflict with the people they were intended to serve and regulate.