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• Title:Asking the law question / Margaret Davies.
  
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• Author/Creator:Davies, Margaret (Law teacher), author.
  
• Published/Created:Pyrmont, NSW : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K230.D38 A85 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence.
  Law--Philosophy.
  Common law.
  
• Medical Subjects: Jurisprudence
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:xii, 587 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:This book provides an up-to-date account of traditional and contemporary legal theory. It reflects the diversity of approaches without attempting to reduce them all into a logical narrative. It is an interdisciplinary work and draws upon a wide range of literary and philosophical sources. The book offers succinct explanations of key ideas, as well as in-depth analysis and critique.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [501]-563) and index
  
• ISBN:9780455238067 paperback
  0455238065 paperback
  
• 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
  Socio-legal theory
  Ecolegality - legal theory in the anthropocene