Talk:Leslie Green (philosopher)

Views on legal positivism
"He is a defender of legal positivism who thinks that there are necessary connections between law and morality." Well, we have a problem then because this self-same encyclopedia defines Positivism as the view that there are no necessary connections between law and morality. Either a) the legal positivism article is incorrect, b) the Leslie Green article is incorrect or c) Leslie Green is both a positivist and a non-positivist. From what little I know of his work I'd plump for (b) but on the whole I'd prefer someone more familiar with the subject to make the change. 128.232.243.176 (talk) 07:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

~I was in his class, where he criticized this article many times for its lack of the word "no" before necessary, and how it makes it very incorrect, however, my edits keep being changed when I attempt to fix this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.150.39 (talk) 22:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about his class, but Green is pretty well known for being a positivist who says that there are necessary connections between law and morality. (He is not the only one however, Raz says something similar.) Green makes the point in the article linked at the end of entry, and in the article linked on his homepage. The entry that defines Positivism as the view that there are no necessary connections between law and morality is mistaken, for reasons Green and Raz have shown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virshiji (talk • contribs) 10:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I AM PRETTY SURE THAT HE IS DEAD
See http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20111203.93280822/BDAStory/BDA/deaths — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.171.163 (talk) 00:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Looking at this obit, and the web-pages setting out the academic background of the Leslie Green covered by this article, I think it's clear that the Leslie Green in the G&M obit is a different Leslie Green, who taught at the University of Alberta rather than at the eastern Canadian schools and Oxford. As well, the date of birth in this article is probably based on the Alberta Leslie Green, not this Leslie Green, who looks much younger than 98 in his web-pages.  I've deleted the birth date from this article, pending some reasonable citation for his age. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:35, 27 May 2016 (UTC)


 * This man is not dead. He is currently on Faculty at Oxford University. Bwadleruno (talk) 01:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Out-of-date Publications

 * There are several publications that can be added to this page. Bwadleruno (talk) 01:03, 28 September 2020 (UTC)