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Emad H. Atiq, Contemporary Non-Positivism, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 92pp., $23.00 (pbk) ISBN 9781009288309.

Reviewed by Thomas Adams, University of Oxford

There is a strange self-depreciation in the opening passages of Emad H. Atiq’s stimulating and sophisticated new book. He is both critical of its title (‘drab and not very informative’) and of its organising motif, the unification of one research agenda around ‘the rejection of another—namely, positivism’. The reader shouldn’t let the author put them off, though. Contained in the first part of the book is a series of provocative arguments against legal positivism: the view that the law of a political community is always and only a matter of human agency, of the rules posited or adopted by its...