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John Austin

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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, 1973–78; Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1952–68. Author of The Concept of Law; Law, Liberty and Morality.
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
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Born:
March 3, 1790, Creeting Mill, Suffolk, Eng.
Died:
December 1859, Weybridge, Surrey (aged 69)

John Austin (born March 3, 1790, Creeting Mill, Suffolk, Eng.—died December 1859, Weybridge, Surrey) was an English jurist whose writings, especially The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), advocated a definition of law as a species of command and sought to distinguish positive law from morality. He had little influence during his lifetime outside the circle of Utilitarian supporters of Jeremy Bentham. His authority came posthumously. Austin began to study law in 1812 after five years in the army and from 1818 to 1825 practiced unsuccessfully at the chancery bar. His powers of rigorous analysis and his uncompromising intellectual honesty deeply ...(100 of 838 words)

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