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The politics of jurisprudence : a critical introduction to legal philosophy created by by Roger Cotterrell

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.Edition: 2ndDescription: 324 pages. cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780406930552
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter 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 Kelsen, 5 - The appeal of natural law, 6 - The problem of the creative judge: Pound and Dworkin, 7 - Scepticism and realism, 8 - A jurisprudence of difference: class, gender and race, 9 - The deconstruction and reconstruction of law.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 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 Kelsen, 5 - The appeal of natural law, 6 - The problem of the creative judge: Pound and Dworkin, 7 - Scepticism and realism, 8 - A jurisprudence of difference: class, gender and race, 9 - The deconstruction and reconstruction of law.

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.

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