The great juristic bazaar : jurists' texts and lawyers' stories

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The great juristic bazaar : jurists' texts and lawyers' stories

William Twining

(Collected essays in law / general editor, Tom D. Campbell)

Dartmouth , Ashgate, c2002

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Facsimile reprint of articles

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. William Twining believes that many jurists have been fascinating people struggling with questions that are both historically significant and relevant to contemporary issues. This book brings together previously published essays that centre on three related themes: reading Juristic texts, the role of narrative in law, and relations between theory and practice. Building on a pragmatic view of jurisprudence, the author explores different ways of reading and using Juristic texts, to set them in context, to bring them to life and to engage with the reader's own concerns. He applies this approach to throw fresh light on four familiar figures - Holmes, Bentham, Hart and Llewellyn. Challenging limited agendas and parochial points of view, Twining outlines a programme for a broad approach to legal theory in the context of globalization. He satirizes some bad habits in jurisprudence and explores in depth how stories can be seductive vehicles for cheating in legal contexts, yet are essential for making sense of disputes about fact or law.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction. Jurist's Texts: R.G. Collingwood's autobiography: one reader's response
  • The bad man revisited
  • Academic law and legal philosophy: the significance of Herbert Hart
  • Talk about realism
  • Karl Llewellyn's unfinished agenda: law in society and the job of Juristic method
  • Reading Bentham
  • Imagining Bentham
  • Globalization, pluralism and post-modernism: Santos, Haack and Calvino
  • Reviving general jurisprudence
  • The great Juristic bazaar. Lawyers Stories: Lawyers stories
  • Anchored narratives: a comment
  • Good stories and true stories
  • Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact
  • The ratio decidendi of the parable of the prodigal son
  • Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA58157872
  • ISBN
    • 0754622118
  • LCCN
    2001048712
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot, Hampshire,Burlington, Vt.
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 506 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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