Jurisprudence
Subtitle: theory and context
By: Brian H. Bix
Edition: Seventh edition.
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780414035652
Subjects: Jurisprudence; Law; Philosophy; Rechtsphilosophie; Rechtstheorie; Philosophy of law
Description: This title explores and integrates models of practice and negotiation, examines strategies and provides precedents.Assists practitioners, policy makers and the judiciary in addressing the issues affecting practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-331) 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: Ronald Dworkin's interpretive approach; 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 intentions; 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.