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• Title:Asking the law question / by Margaret Davies.
  
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• Author/Creator:Davies, Margaret (Law teacher)
  
• Published/Created:Pyrmont, NSW : Lawbook Co., 2008.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K230.D38 A85 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Philosophy.
  Jurisprudence.
  Culture and law.
  Law--Political aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Jurisprudence
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 428 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:In Asking the Law Question, Margaret Davies provides an up to date account of traditional and contemporary legal theory. This edition retains the critical and contemporary focus of the first two editions. It has been updated to incorporate discussion of recent works and current trends in legal theory, without losing the emphasis on seeing legal theory in the context of its historical, social and political contexts. New material has been added on the notion of legal boundaries, the idea of "evolution" in law, the theory of science, the relationship between legal theory and the sociology of law, sexuality/queer theory, and the intersection between culture, religion and gender. All chapters have been extensively updated, revised and re-edited.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-418) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780455222912 (pbk.)
  0455222916 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Asking the law question (what is it?)
  Classical common law theory
  Natural law and positivism
  Legal science
  Critical legal studies: the beginnings of a dissolution
  Feminisms and gender in legal theory
  Race and colonialism: legal theory as "white mythology"
  Postmodernism and deconstruction.