Jurisprudence
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3, 11/9/2017
EAN 9781316621172, ISBN10: 1316621170
Paperback, 472 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas, the author deepens students' understanding of the perennial debates about the nature and function of law and its relation to justice. Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics, Suri Ratnapala's Jurisprudence remains an essential text for students and researchers of jurisprudence and legal theory.
1. Introduction
Part I. Law As It Is
2. British legal positivism
philosophical roots and command theories
3. Herbert Hart's new beginning and new questions
4. Germanic legal positivism
Hans Kelsen's quest for the pure theory of law
5. Realism in legal theory
Part II. Law and Morality
6. Natural law tradition from antiquity to the Enlightenment
7. John Finnis' restatement of classical natural law
8. Separation of law and morality
Part III. Social Dimensions of Law
9. Sociological jurisprudence and sociology of law
10. Radical jurisprudence
challenges to liberal legal theory
11. Economic analysis of law
12. Evolutionary jurisprudence
Part IV. Rights and Justice
13. Fundamental legal conceptions
the building blocks of legal norms
14. Justice.