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• Title:Understanding jurisprudence : an introduction to legal theory / Raymond Wacks.
  
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• Variant Title:Introduction to legal theory
  
• Author/Creator:Wacks, Raymond, author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K230.W29 A38 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence.
  Law--Philosophy.
  
• Medical Subjects: Jurisprudence
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:xx, 379 pages ; 25 c
  
• Summary:"An engaging writing style makes this a highly readable and interesting account for all law students, offering the ideal support for a legal theory module as well as providing valuable context for the study of law in general Written by an experienced academic and author, the text explains complex ideas clearly yet without avoiding the subtleties of the subject Covers a broad range of thinkers and theories including Hart, Dworkin, and Raz as well as discussion of feminist and critical race theory and separate chapters on theories of justice, rights, and punishment Features key quotes and further reading to introduce and explain the central scholarly works, ideas, and commentaries which shape legal theory Includes a glossary to assist understanding and provide a quick-reference guide to the key terms and ideas central to jurisprudence. New to this edition Revised to include the most recent scholarship in several areas of jurisprudence, and to reflect the social and political developments that have influenced the law and legal theory Expanded chapters on natural law, legal positivism, realism, rights, and theories of justice New and enhanced discussions of the rule of law, global justice, virtue ethics, human and animal rights, the economic analysis of law, and postmodernist theories Updated suggested further reading lists and questions at the end of each chapter With a clear, engaging, and informal style, Understanding Jurisprudence is the perfect guide for students new to legal theory looking for a handy and stimulating starting point to this sometimes daunting subject. Key theories and theorists are introduced in a compact and practicable format, offering an accessible account of the central ideas without oversimplification. Further reading suggestions are included throughout, helping students to structure their research and navigate the jurisprudences extensive literature. Critical questions are also included in each chapter, to encourage students to think analytically about the law and legal theory, and the numerous debates that it generates."--Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:Previous edition: 2012.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780198723868
  0198723865
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. What's it all about?
  1.1. analgesic?
  1.2. Reading
  1.3. Why jurisprudence?
  1.4. Descriptive, normative, and critical legal theory
  1.5. Is eating people wrong?
  1.6. rule of law
  1.6.1. Dicey
  1.6.2. Modern approaches
  1.7. point of legal theory
  2. Natural law and morality
  2.1. Classical natural law theory
  2.1.1. Plato and Aristotle
  2.1.2. St Thomas Aquinas
  2.2. Contemporary natural law theory
  2.3. Natural law in political philosophy
  2.3.1. Hobbes
  2.3.2. Locke
  2.3.3. Rousseau
  2.4. decline of natural law theory
  2.5. revival of natural law theory
  2.6. John Finnis
  2.7. Hard and soft natural law?
  2.8. Moral realism
  2.9. Critique
  2.10. Law and morality
  2.10.1. Natural law v positivism
  2.10.2. Hart v Fuller
  2.10.3. Hart v Devlin
  2.11. Judicial morality: a case study
  2.11.1. Moral questions
  2.11.2. Semantic questions
  2.11.3. Public or private morality?
  2.11.4. judge's duty
  2.11.5. judge's choice
  2.11.6. judge's surrender
  2.11.7. judge and the lawyer
  2.12. Questions
  2.13. Further reading
  3. Classical legal positivism
  3.1. What is legal positivism?
  3.1.1. What legal positivism is not
  3.2. Jeremy Bentham: the Luther of jurisprudence?
  3.2.1. In search of determinacy
  3.2.2. Judge & Co
  3.2.3. Codification
  3.3. John Austin: naive empiricist?
  3.31. Imperatives
  3.3.2. Laws properly so called
  3.3.3. Law and power
  3.4. Bentham and Austin compared
  3.4.1. Their general approaches
  3.4.2. definition of law
  3.4.3. Commands
  3.4.4. Sovereignty
  3.4.5. Sanctions
  3.5. Questions
  3.6. Further reading
  4. Modern legal positivism
  4.1. foundations
  4.2. HLA Hart
  4.2.1. Hart as legal positivist
  4.2.2. Law and language
  4.2.3. Law as a system of rules
  4.2.4. Social rules
  4.2.5. Secondary rules
  4.2.6. rule of recognition
  4.2.7. existence of a legal system
  4.2.8. `internal point of view'
  4.2.9. judicial function
  4.210. `An essay in descriptive sociology'?
  4.211. Critique
  4.3. Hans Kelsen
  4.3.1. Unadulterated law
  4.3.2. hierarchy of norms
  4.3.3. Grundnorm
  4.3.4. Validity, efficacy, and revolution
  4.3.5. International law
  4.3.6. Kelsen and Kant
  4.3.7. Democracy and the rule of law
  4.3.8. Critique
  4.4. Joseph Raz
  4.4.1. `sources thesis'
  4.4.2. Practical reason
  44.3. Committed and detached statements
  4.4.4. Critique
  4.5. Hard and soft positivism
  4.6. Questions
  4.7. Further reading
  5. Dworkin and the moral integrity of law
  5.1. overview
  5.2. assault on positivism
  5.2.1. Principles and policies
  5.2.2. Hercules and hard cases
  5.2.3. One right answer
  5.2.4. semantic sting
  5.2.5. rights thesis
  5.2.6. Law as literature
  5.2.7. Law as integrity
  5.2.8. Community
  5.3. Equality
  5.4. Good lives and living well
  5.5. assault on Dworkin
  5.6. Questions
  5.7. Further reading
  6. Legal realism
  6.1. What are realists realistic about?
  6.2. American Realism
  6.2.1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  6.2.2. Karl Llewellyn
  6.2.3. Jerome Frank
  6.2.4. American realist method
  6.3. Scandinavian realists
  6.3.1. Alf Ross
  6.3.2. Karl Olivecrona
  6.3.3. Critique
  6.4. Realism and psychology
  6.5. Questions
  6.6. Further reading
  7. Law and social theory
  7.1. What is a sociological perspective?
  7.2. Roscoe Pound
  7.2.1. Social interests and `jural postulates'
  7.2.2. Critique of Pound
  7.3. Eugen Ehrlich
  7.4. Emile Durkheim
  7.4.1. Law and social solidarity
  7.4.2. function of punishment
  7.4.3. Critique of Durkheim
  7.5. Max Weber
  7.5.1. Weber's typology of law
  7.5.2. Weber's theory of legitimate domination
  7.5.3. Capitalism and law
  7.5.4. Critique of Weber
  7.6. Karl Marx
  7.6.1. Historicism
  7.6.2. Base and superstructure
  7.6.3. Ideology
  7.6.4. Goodbye to law?
  7.6.5. Legal fetishism
  7.6.6. Conflict or consensus?
  7.7. Michel Foucault
  7.7.1. Power
  7.7.2. law
  7.7.3. Critique
  7.8. Jurgen Habermas
  7.8.1. modern state
  7.8.2. law
  7.8.3. Critique
  7.9. Autopoiesis
  7.10. Whither the sociology of law?
  7.11. Questions
  7.12. Further reading
  8. Historical and anthropological jurisprudence
  8.1. Why do legal systems differ?
  8.2. historical school
  8.2.1. Savigny
  8.3. Sir Henry Maine
  8.3.1. evolution of law
  8.3.2. Natural law
  8.3.3. Fictions
  8.3.4. Critique
  8.4. Anthropological jurisprudence
  8.4.1. `Law' in tribal societies
  8.4.2. Bronislaw Malinowski
  8.4.3. EAdamson Hoebel
  8.4.4. Max Gluckman
  8.4.5. Paul Bohannan
  8.4.6. Leopold Pospisil
  8.4.7. Other theorists
  8.5. Legal pluralism
  8.6. Questions
  8.7. Further reading
  9. Theories of justice
  9.1. Utilitarianism
  9.1.1. Consequences
  9.1.2. Preferences
  9.1.3. Critique of utilitarianism
  9.2. economic analysis of law
  9.2.1. Critique
  9.3. John Rawls
  9.3.1. rejection of utilitarianism
  9.3.2. Social contractarianism
  9.3.3. original position
  9.3.4. two principles of justice
  9.3.5. Reconsideration
  9.3.6. Critique of Rawls
  9.4. Robert Nozick
  9.5. Questions
  9.6. Further reading
  10. Rights
  10.1. What is a right?
  10.2. Theories of rights
  10.2.1. Right-based theories
  10.3. Human rights
  10.3.1. Communitarianism
  10.3.2. Relativism
  10.3.3. Utilitarianism
  10.3.4. Socialism
  10.3.5. Legal positivism
  10.3.6. Critical theory
  10.4. future of human rights
  10.5. Animal rights
  10.5.1. Early philosophical influences
  10.5.2. Utilitarianism
  10.5.3. Can animals have rights?
  10.5.4. Social contractarianism
  10.5.5. Intrinsic worth
  10.5.6. rights of animals
  10.6. Questions
  10.7. Further reading
  11. Why obey the law?
  11.1. terms of the debate
  11.1.1. prima facie duty?
  11.1.2. Justifying the duty
  11.2. Questions
  11.3. Further reading
  12. Why punish?
  12.1. Justifying punishment
  12.2. Retributivism
  12.2.1. Weak and strong retributivists
  12.2.2. Critique
  12.3. Consequentialism
  12.4. Critique
  12.5. Restorative justice
  12.6. Critique
  12.7. Communication
  12.8. Critique
  12.9. Questions
  12.10. Further reading
  13. Critical legal theory
  13.1. Critical Legal Studies
  13.1.1. Trashing CLS?
  13.2. Postmodern legal theory
  13.21. What is it?
  13.2.2. death of the subject
  13.2.3. Jacques Lacan
  13.2.4. Jacques Derrida
  13.2.5. Foucault and Habermas
  13.2.6. postmodern agenda
  13.2.7. Language
  13.2.8. Critical theory and individual rights
  13.2.9. Critique
  13.3. Questions
  13.4. Further reading
  14. Feminist and critical race theory
  14.1. Feminist legal theories
  14.2. Origins of feminism
  14.3. Legal feminisms
  14.3.1. Liberal feminism
  14.3.2. Radical feminism
  14.3.3. Postmodern feminism
  14.3.4. Difference feminism
  14.3.5. Other feminisms
  14.4. Critique
  14.5. Critical race theory
  14.5.1. CRT and feminist theory
  14.5.2. CRT and postmodernism
  14.6. Questions
  14.7. Further reading
  15. Jurisprudence understood?.