McCoubrey & White's textbook on jurisprudence
Logically organized to support the topics commonly taught on jurisprudence and legal theory courses, this text provides an easy-to-follow and digestible account of this wide-ranging subject, making it the ideal companion text for further reading and research throughout your course
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is jurisprudence?
- 2. Natural law
- 3. Classical legal positivism : Bentham, Austin, and Kelsen
- 4. Hart : the critical project
- 5. Hart?s theory of law
- 6. Post-Hart analytical philosophy of law : Dworkin and Raz
- 7. The building blocks of law: norms and their nature
- 8. Governing and obedience
- 9. Law and adjudication
- 10. The legal and political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
- 11. The legal and political philosophy of Immanuel Kant
- 12. John Rawls' political liberalism
- 13. Marxist and post-Marxist theories of law
- 14. Feminist legal theory
- 15. Postmodern legal theory