Understanding jurisprudence
Subtitle: an introduction to legal theory
By: Raymond Wacks
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780199608263
Subjects: Philosophy; Law; Jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Natural law and morality; title: Classical legal positivism; title: Modern legal positivism; title: Dworkin and the moral integrity of law; title: Legal realism; title: Law and social theory; title: Historical and anthropological jurisprudence; title: Theories of justice; title: Rights; title: Why obey the law?; title: Why punish?; title: Critical legal theory; title: Feminist and critical race theory; title: Jurisprudence understood?