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On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism (2021)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2021). On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 20(2), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges to his construction of an Inclusive Anti-positivism. I firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IA... Read More about On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism.

The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion (2020)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2020). The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion. Ratio Juris: An international journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 33(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12288

This paper argues for a novel understanding of the relationship between law and coercion. It firstly refutes Kenneth Himma’s claim that the authorisation of coercive enforcement mechanisms is a conceptually necessary feature of law. It then claims th... Read More about The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion.