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    Jurisprudence : themes and concepts.

    • Title:Jurisprudence : themes and concepts.
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    • Author/Creator:Veitch, Scott.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Christodoulidis, Emilios.
      Farmer, Lindsay, 1963-
    • Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence.
      Law--Philosophy.
      Law--Political aspects.
      Rule of law.
    • Edition:2nd ed. / Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Lindsay Farmer.
    • Description:xii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:The commonest definition of jurisprudence is the philosophy of law. The main themes and concepts of jurisprudence involve analysing and explaining the law and relating it to other fields of human endeavour. This volume explores these themes and concepts at a level suitable for students.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415679725 (hbk.)
      0415679729 (hbk.)
      9780415679824 (pbk.)
      0415679826 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. General themes
      1.1. Introduction to the relationship between law and politics
      On power - political power and legal power
      Elements of the constitutional state
      Jurisdiction, state and legal system
      1.2. Sovereignty
      Sovereignty: a contested concept
      Attributing sovereignty - to whom or what?
      Post-sovereignty?
      1.3. rule of law and the 'inner morality of law'
      rule of law - meaning and value
      Challenges to the rule of law
      inner morality of law
      1.4. Rights
      Civil, political and social rights
      Politicising law - legalising politics
      indivisibility of rights?
      Rights in international and global context
      1.5. Identifying valid law
      Hart's concept of law
      Kelsen's pure theory of law
      Legality and validity
      Injustice and invalidity
      2. Advanced Topics
      2.1. Justice
      Introduction
      Utilitarianism versus libertarianism
      Liberalism: Rawls's justice as fairness
      Socialism
      2.2. Constitutionalism and citizenship
      paradox of constitutionalism
      Representation and foundation
      Constitutional 'moments'
      Citizenship: liberal and republican
      2.3. Law, politics and globalisation
      Globalisation and the reconfigured State
      Sovereignty after globalisation
      Constitutionalism beyond the State
      2.4. Law and the state of emergency
      Emergency, derogation and the 'war' on terror
      Carl Schmitt: Sovereignty and the exception
      2.5. rule of law in political transitions
      Dilemmas of the rule of law
      Difficulties in establishing accountability and responsibility
      Forms of justice
      Tutorials
      1. General Themes
      1.1. Introduction to legal reasoning
      1.2. Legal formalism
      What is formalism?
      'pure theory of law' and the notion of self-containment
      Formalism and deduction
      promise of formalism
      1.3. American Legal Realism
      'The Path of the Law': law as prophecy
      Rule-scepticism
      Fact-scepticism
      faith in science
      1.4. Rules, 'open texture' and the limits of discretion
      HLA Hart and the 'open texture' of legal language
      Neil MacCormick: the defence of an 'extended formalism'
      1.5. Law as a practice of interpretation
      Dworkin on 'hard' cases
      'right answer': law as integrity
      1.6. Critical Legal Studies
      2. Advanced Topics
      2.1. Justice, natural law and the limits of rule-following
      Moral reason and hard cases
      John Finnis and the morality of the law
      2.2. Equality, difference and domination: feminist critiques of adjudication
      Initial challenges
      Critiquing the form of legal reasoning
      Comparing approaches
      2.3. Trials, facts and narratives
      legacy of fact-scepticism
      Trials and perceptions of fact: language and narrative in the courtroom
      Trials, regulation and justice
      2.4. Judging in an unjust society
      2.5. Law and deconstruction
      Tutorials
      1. General Themes
      1.1. advent of modernity
      1.2. Law and social solidarity
      1.3. Law, power and exploitation
      function of law
      Ideology
      Marxists and the law
      1.4. Formal legal rationality and legal modernity
      Forms of legal rationality
      Forms of political authority
      development of legal modernity
      1.5. Transformations of modern law
      materialisation of modern law
      Law in the welfare state
      welfare state and globalisation
      'Unthinking' modern law
      2. Advanced Topics
      2.1. Legal pluralism
      Classical and contemporary legal pluralism
      Strong and weak legal pluralism, and the position of the State
      Empirical, conceptual and political approaches to legal pluralism
      Future directions in legal pluralism
      2.2. Juridification
      Introductory remarks
      Habermas on juridification
      Juridification and the 'regulatory trilemma'
      Juridification as depoliticisation
      fifth epoch?
      2.3. Displacing the juridical: Foucault on power and discipline
      Introductory remarks
      Discipline and biopower
      Governmentality
      theory of legal modernity?
      2.4. Law in the risk society
      Introduction
      Features of the 'risk society'
      Law in the risk society
      Individualisation
      2.5. Law and autopoiesis
      concept of autopoiesis
      inventory of concepts
      coding of social systems
      Society, sub-systems and the law
      How does 'the law think'?
      Tutorials.
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