caa a22 4500 388074078 CHVBK 20180307125156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0841820900002174 doi S0841820900002174 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0841820900002174 Marmor Andrei The Separation Thesis and the Limits of Interpretation [Elektronische Daten] [Andrei Marmor] There are many versions of legal positivism; perhaps as many as there are legal positivists around. All the versions of legal positivism, however, subscribe to the so-called Separation Thesis. This thesis basically maintains that detenriining what the law is, does not necessarily, or conceptually, depend on moral or other evaluative considerations about what it ought to be in the relevant circumstances. Legal positivists differ, however, and quite substantially, over the appropriate interpretation of this thesis. The so-called ‘strong', or ‘exclusive' version of legal positivism maintains that moral considerations never determine the legal validity of norms. ‘Soft' positivists, on the other hand, do maintain that there is a close relation between legal validity and morality, but they hold that this relation is, at best, a contingent matter; it does not derive from the nature of law or legal reasoning as such. Soft-positivists claim that moral considerations determine legal validity only in certain cases, namely, in those cases which follow from the rules of recognition that happen to prevail in a given legal system. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 12/1(1999-01), 135-150 0841-8209 12:1<135 1999 12 CJL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002174 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002174 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marmor Andrei NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 12/1(1999-01), 135-150 0841-8209 12:1<135 1999 12 CJL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge