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    Jurisprudence : theory and context / Brian H. Bix.

    • Title:Jurisprudence : theory and context / Brian H. Bix.
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    • Author/Creator:Bix, Brian, author.
    • Published/Created:London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2015.
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      • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
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      • Call Number: K230.B5786 A348 2015
      • Number of Items:3
      • Status:Available
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence.
      Law--Philosophy.
    • Medical Subjects: Jurisprudence
    • Edition:Seventh edition.
    • Description:xx, 343 pages ; 22 cm
    • Summary:This title explores and integrates models of practice and negotiation, examines strategies and provides precedents.Assists practitioners, policy makers and the judiciary in addressing the issues affecting practice.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780414035652
      0414035658
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. A Legal Theory: Problems and Possibilities
      ch. One Overview, Purpose and Methodology
      Questions and Answers in Jurisprudence
      Descriptive Theory
      Transforming the Question
      To What Extent is it Legal Theory?
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Two Legal Theory: General Jurisprudence and Conceptual Analysis
      Problem of Theories of Law
      Conceptual Analysis
      Alternative Purposes
      Challenges to Conceptual Analysis
      Boundary Lines in Law
      Conclusion
      Suggested Further Reading
      pt. B Individual Theories About the Nature of Law
      ch. Three H. L. A. Hart and Legal Positivism
      Overview of Legal Positivism
      Summary of Hart's Position
      Rule of Recognition
      Internal Aspect of Rules (and of Law)
      Open Texture
      Minimum Content of Natural Law
      Inclusive versus Exclusive Legal Positivism
      Other Approaches
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Four Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law
      Pure Theory of Law
      Reduction and Legal Theory
      Hart versus Kelsen
      On the Nature of Norms
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Five Natural Law Theory and John Finnis
      Traditional Natural Law Theory
      Medieval and Renaissance Theorists
      John Finnis
      Natural Law Theory versus Legal Positivism
      Other Directions
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Six Understanding Lon Fuller
      Different Kind of Natural Law Theory
      Fuller's Approach
      Contemporary Views
      Fuller and Legal Process
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Seven Ronald Dworkin's Interpretive Approach
      Earlier Writings
      Constructive Interpretation
      Right Answers
      Dworkin versus Hart
      Debunking Questions
      Suggested Further Reading
      pt. C Themes and Principles
      ch. Eight Justice
      John Rawls and Social Contract Theory
      Rawls' Two Principles
      Rawls' Later Modifications
      Robert Nozick and Libertarianism
      Michael Sandel, Communitarianism and Civic Republicanism
      Feminist Critiques
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Nine Punishment
      Starting Point
      Retribution
      "Making Society Better": Consequentialism/Utilitarianism
      Other Objectives
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Ten Rights and Rights Talk
      Hohfeld's Analysis
      Will Theory Versus Interest Theory
      Other Topics
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Eleven Will and Reason
      Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory
      Social Contracts and Economic Analysis
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Twelve Authority, Finality and Mistake
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Thirteen Common Law Reasoning and Precedent
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Fourteen Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Intentions
      Legislative Intention
      "Plain Meaning"
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Fifteen Legal Enforcement of Morality
      Dividing Lines
      Topics
      Hart versus Devlin
      New Start
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Sixteen Obligation to Obey the Law
      Obligation and Consent
      Other Approaches
      Argument Against a General Moral Obligation to Obey
      Connections
      Suggested Further Reading
      pt. D Modern Perspectives on Legal Theory
      ch. Seventeen American Legal Realism
      Target: Formalism
      Realism and Legal Analysis
      Realism and the Courts
      Overview and Postscript
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Eighteen Economic Analysis of Law
      In Search of Consensus
      Coase Theorem
      Description and Analysis
      Economics and Justice
      Game Theory
      Public Choice Theory
      Other Variations
      Limits of Law and Economics
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Nineteen Modern Critical Perspectives
      Critical Legal Studies
      "Outsider Jurisprudence"
      Feminist Legal Theory
      Critical Race Theory
      Other Critical Approaches
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Twenty Law and Literature
      Interpretation and Constraint
      Other Critics
      Miscellaneous Connections
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Twenty One Philosophical Foundations of the Common law
      Tort Law
      Contract
      Property
      Criminal Law
      Causation
      Suggested Further Reading
      ch. Twenty Two Other Approaches
      Historical Jurisprudence
      Free Law Movement
      Marxist Jurisprudence
      Scandinavian Legal Realism
      Legal Process
      Pragmatism
      Postmodernism
      Suggested Further Reading.
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