Jurisprudence
Subtitle: theory and context
By: Brian H. Bix.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781594606984
Subjects: Jurisprudence; Law -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview, purpose and methodology; title: Legal theory: general jurisprudence and conceptual anlysis; title: H.l.A. Hart and legal positivism; title: Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law; title: Natural law theory and John Finnis; title: Understanding Lon Fuller; title: Justice; title: Punishment; title: Rights and rights talk; title: Will and reason; title: Authority, finality, and mistake; title: Common law reasoning and precedent; title: Statutory interpretation and legislative; title: Legal enforcement of morality; title: The obligation to obey the law; title: American legal realism; title: Economic analysis of law; title: Modern critical perspectives; title: Law and literature; title: Philosophial foundations of the common law; title: Other approaches.