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Jurisprudence of values is referred to in various works all over the world. [2] [3] This modus of thinking of focuses on constitutional principles. [note 2] The jurisprudence of values centers on the concepts of incidence and interpretation of the legal norm, as well as rules and principles, and concepts like equality, freedom, and justice. [4]
Virtue ethics has implications for an account of the proper ends of legislation. If the aim of law is to make citizens virtuous (as opposed to maximizing utility or realizing a set of moral rights), what are the implications for the content of the laws? Virtue ethics has implications for legal ethics. Current approaches to legal ethics ...
Within legal positivism, theorists agree that law's content is a product of social facts, but theorists disagree whether law's validity can be explained by incorporating moral values. [38] Legal positivists who argue against the incorporation of moral values to explain law's validity are labeled exclusive (or hard) legal positivists.
An inter jurisdictional Legal Services Council was established in order to regulate the legal profession and its delivery of legal services. [7] This resulted in the creation of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 [8] and the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct Barristers' Rules 2015. [9]
Law is an ordinance of reason because it must be reasonable [4] or based in reason and not merely in the will of the legislator. [5] [6] It is for the common good because the end or telos of law is the good of the community it binds, and not merely the good of the lawmaker or a special interest group. [4]
Most legal realists denied the existence of natural law, had a scientific approach to the law based on the distinction between describing and evaluating the law, and denied the existence of an objective (moral or political) obligation to obey the law; they therefore qualified as legal positivists.
But to be a valid rule, the legal system of which the rule is a component must, as a whole, be effective. According to Hart, any rule that complies with the rule of recognition is a valid legal rule. For example, if the rule of recognition were "what Professor X says is law", then any rule that Professor X spoke would be a valid legal rule.
The "legal acculturation of the subject" would thus occur thanks to the transmission by school (or other channels conveying of the common culture), integrating the historical experience assimilated by national culture and fundamental concepts and values of the national legal heritage (in particular regarding the state, the citizen, law or ...