In 1881, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes created the idea of legal positivism by announcing: «The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.» (greenbackd.com)
Giambrone confuses Scalia's theory of judicial interpretation with a theory of law itself known as legal positivism. (firstthings.com)
Taking the Darwinian revolution into the law, Holmes rejected the antebellum idea of natural justice in favor of a supposedly scientific legal positivism that identified law only with power. (firstthings.com)