A Re-Reading of a Tradition
by
W.E. Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language...