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· 2019

Bentham and the Common Law Tradition

Gerald J. Postema

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Jeremy Bentham's legal positivism is reinterpreted as being fundamentally utilitarian, not merely coincidentally so, and his framework for judicial discretion in the shadow of codified law is highlighted.

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Field: Law

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