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Jurisprudence : themes and concepts.
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Title:Jurisprudence : themes and concepts.
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Author/Creator:Veitch, Scott.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Christodoulidis, Emilios.
Farmer, Lindsay, 1963-
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Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: K237 .J87 2012
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Number of Items:1
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Status:c.1 Lost - 10-16-2022
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence.
Law--Philosophy.
Law--Political aspects.
Rule of law.
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Edition:2nd ed. / Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Lindsay Farmer.
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Description:xii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780415679725 (hbk.)
0415679729 (hbk.)
9780415679824 (pbk.)
0415679826 (pbk.)
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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.