ON ‘POSITIVISM’ AND ‘LEGAL RATIONAL AUTHORITY’

Max Weber: Traditional, Legal-Rational, and Charismatic Authority

Legal Positivism : Its Scope and Limitations

Ethnic Perceptions of Legal Authority

Although California has always been home to many ethnic and cultural groups, the state’s population is reaching new levels of diversity. Demographic projections from the California Department of Finance indicate that by the year 2020, over 60 percent of the state’s residents will identify themselves as non-white. Large influxes of immigrants from Latin America and Asia, coupled with higher birt...

Precedent and Legal Authority: A Critical History

On the Dividing Line between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism