Roger Cotterrell (Professor of Legal Theory, University of London,

The Politics of Jurisprudence

A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores what jurisprudence is about, what it seeks to do, how it does it and - most importantly - how its conclusions can be brought to bear on everyday problems of legal practice and major social, moral or political issues. This work includes material to illustrate general approaches to legal theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9780406930552
• ISBN-10: 0406930554
• Artikelnr.: 21776870

Autorenporträt

Roger Cotterrell LLD, MSc (Soc), Professor of Legal Theory, University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Legal philosophy in context
2.: The theory of common law
3.: Sovereign and subject: Bentham and Austin
4.: Analytical jurisprudence and liberal democracy: Hart and Kelson
5.: The appeal of natural law
6.: The problem of the creative judge: Pound and Dworkin
7.: Scepticism and realism
8.: A jursiprudence of difference: class, gender and race
9.: The deconstruction and reconstruction of law
Index