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Understanding jurisprudence : an introduction to legal theory / created by Raymond Wacks, BA, LLB, LLM, LLD, MLiTT, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xx, 407 pages : 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198806011 (pbk.)
  • 0198806019 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • K230 WAC
Contents:
What's it all about? -- Natural law and morality -- Classical legal positivism -- Modern legal positivism -- Law and moral legitimacy -- Legal realism -- Law and social theory -- Historical and anthropological jurisprudence -- Theories of justice -- Rights -- Why obey the law? -- Why punish? -- Critical legal theory -- Feminist theory -- Jurisprudence understood?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's it all about? -- Natural law and morality -- Classical legal positivism -- Modern legal positivism -- Law and moral legitimacy -- Legal realism -- Law and social theory -- Historical and anthropological jurisprudence -- Theories of justice -- Rights -- Why obey the law? -- Why punish? -- Critical legal theory -- Feminist theory -- Jurisprudence understood?

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