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Niklas Luhmann
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- Niklas Luhmann's major contribution to sociolegal scholarship was to translate the notion of legal positivism into sociological terms. “There is only positive law, that is, law decided exclusively within the legal system itself. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Luhmann, Niklas (1927–1998)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Niklas_Luhmann
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