John Austin (legal philosophy)

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John Austin (1790 - 1859) was a noted British jurist.

Austin served in the army in Sicily and Malta, but sold his commission to study law. He was called to the Bar in 1818. He discontinued his practice shortly after, devoted himself to the study of law as a science, and became Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London (now University College London) 1826-32. Thereafter he served on various Royal Commissions.

His works exercised a profound influence on the views of jurisprudence held in England. These include The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), and Lectures on Jurisprudence.

References

• This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

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