John Austin

You go very in-depth.

You take us through the thoughts of an 18th century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, a founder of legal positivism and John Austin, a 19th century dominant figure in philosophy of law in England, to name two, before bringing us back to the contemporary political moment.

Why isn't it Simply enough to say that Parliament makes the law and officials obey it from a lay perspective.

And what, in your view, has to be present before we can genuinely say that a society is governed by the rule of law?

Okay, one was called William Barclay.

Okay, the most important person in the history of English jurisprudence, English legal philosophy in the 19th century was John Austin, was a philosopher who taught at the University of London in the 1930s, in the late 1920s and 1930s, and was called John Austin.

Austin.

gave lectures of jurisprudence, which were not only partly published while he was alive.

What had happened so lately seemed as if it might easily happen again, and the most transcendent glory I was capable of conceiving was that of figuring, successfully or unsuccessfully, as a Giordinist in an English convention.

During the winter of 1821 too, Mr. John Austin, with whom at the time of my visit to France my father had but lately become acquainted, kindly allowed me to read Roman law with him.

My father, notwithstanding his abhorrence of the chaos of barbarianism called English law, had turned his thoughts toward the bar as on the whole less inequitable for me than any other profession.

And these readings with Mr. Austin, who had made Bentham's best ideas his own, and added much to them from other sources, and from his own mind,

After this I continued to write papers on subjects often very much beyond my capacity, but with great benefit both from the exercise itself and from the discussions which it led to with my father.

I had also to converse on great subjects with the instructed men with whom I came in contact, and the opportunities of such contact naturally became more numerous.

The two friends of my father, from whom I derived most and with whom I most associated, were Mr. Grote and Mr. John Austin.

The acquaintance of both with my father was recent, but had ripened rapidly into intimacy.