The politics of jurisprudence : a critical introduction to legal philosophy
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The politics of jurisprudence : a critical introduction to legal philosophy
Oxford University Press, 2003
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Politics of Jurisprudence explores what jurisprudence is about, what it seeks to do, how it does it and - most importantly - how its conclusions can be brought to bear on everyday problems of legal practice and major social, moral or political issues. It selects material to illustrate general approaches to legal theory and to explore professional and political uses to which that theory has been put.
Table of Contents
- 1. Legal philosophy in context
- 2. The theory of common law
- 3. Sovereign and subject: Bentham and Austin
- 4. Analytical jurisprudence and liberal democracy: Hart and Kelson
- 5. The appeal of natural law
- 6. The problem of the creative judge: Pound and Dworkin
- 7. Scepticism and realism
- 8. A jursiprudence of difference: class, gender and race
- 9. The deconstruction and reconstruction of law
- Index
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