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About Non-Positivist Perspective on Legal Values in International Law

The distinction between legal and non-legal values can be made from the aspect of legal system analysis. Since the content of the legal system depends on the identification of norms that establish such content, the problem of the identification is crucial for any kind of consideration of legal values. In discourse of international legal scholars, we can recognize attempts to identify values which are not dependent on the existing social practice. The purpose of this paper is to analyse such an approach to legal values as opposite to the positivistic account of the law and to analyse the main objection to this non-positivist perspective.

Theory of law, international law, legal values, peace, rule of law, constitution

The paper was originally presented at "The XIVth CEENJ Conference: Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava, 12-13 September 2019". Papers presented at CEENJ conference have been published in the collected volume as a separate issue of Bratislava Law Review 4(2) 20020