This paper centres on the distinction between behaviour and the norms related to family behaviour, as expressed through state law and practice. Such expressions must be justified because they prescribe rather than describe social behaviour. I maintain that, in order to be justified,...

This article argues that the apparent incompatibility between Social Theses about the nature of law and the Coherence (or Interpretivist) Thesis should be resolved by seeing them as representing two different conceptions of law. The Social Thesis associated with Exclusive Positivism is a...