？ES EL DERECHO UN SISTEMA DE MANDATOS? LA CRíTICA DE HART A LA TEORíA IMPERATIVISTA DEL DERECHO

one of the doctrines that has traditionally been named with the appellative of "positivist" is one that sustains that the law is a system of laws, and the latter are mandates from human beings. such doctrine, also known as "imperative theory of law", was formulated in the work of john austin. by mid 20th century said doctrine received a harsh criticism by another positivist author, h.l.a. hart. this work briefly exposes austin's doctrine and hart's rough criticism.