An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Law
ISBN :
Philosophy of Law
Author : Mark Tebbit
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415334411
Book Description
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction
Author : Raymond Wacks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191510645
Book Description
The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, and judges. Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy with clarity and enthusiasm, providing an enlightening guide to the central questions of legal theory. In this revised edition Wacks makes a number of updates including new material on legal realism, changes to the approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updates to historical and anthropological jurisprudence. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
What Makes Law
Author : Liam Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521834279
Book Description
This advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy attempts to breathe new life into stalled research.
Philosophy of Law
Author : Andrei Marmor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2014-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691163960
Book Description
In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law—an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Marmor argues that the myriad questions raised by the factual and normative features of law actually depend on the possibility of reduction—whether the legal domain can be explained in terms of something else, more foundational in nature. In addition to exploring the major issues in contemporary legal thought, Philosophy of Law provides a critical analysis of the people and ideas that have dominated the field in past centuries. It will be essential reading for anyone curious about the nature of law.
Philosophy of Law
Author : Larry May
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405183888
Book Description
Philosophy of Law provides a rich overview of the diverse theoretical justifications for our legal rules, systems, and practices. Utilizes the work of both classical and contemporary philosophers to illuminate the relationship between law and morality Introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of International Law and its increasing importance as we face globalization Features concrete examples in the form of cases significant to the evolution of law Contrasts Anglo-American law with foreign institutions and practices such as those in China, Japan, India, Ireland and Canada Incorporates diverse perspectives on the philosophy of law ranging from canonical material to feminist theory, critical theory, postmodernism, and critical race theory
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law
Author : Andrei Marmor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415878187
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law. Its coverage includes law's relation to morality and the moral obligations to obey the law, the main philosophical debates about particular legal areas such as criminal responsibility, property, contracts, family law, law and justice in the international domain, legal paternalism and the rule of law. The entirely new content has been written specifically for newcomers to the field, making the volume particularly useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of law and related areas. All 39 chapters, written by the world's leading researchers and edited by an internationally distinguished scholar, bring a focused, philosophical perspective to their subjects. The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law promises to be a valuable and much consulted student resource for many years.
Arguing about Law
Author : Andrew Altman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780534543525
Book Description
Using the rule of law as its main theme, this text shows how abstract questions and concepts of legal philosophy are connected to concrete legal, political, and social issues. The text addresses several modern controversies and challenges students to consider both sides of an argument, using sound, reasoned thinking.
Normative Jurisprudence
Author : Robin West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139504126
Book Description
Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence – natural law, legal positivism and critical legal studies – that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for just such normative scholarship. Over the last fifty years or so, all of these traditions, although for different reasons, have taken a number of different turns – toward empirical analysis, conceptual analysis or Foucaultian critique – and away from straightforward normative criticism. As a result, normative legal scholarship – scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform – is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought. The book criticizes those developments and suggests a return, albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges, to this traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship.
An Introduction to Rights
Author : William A. Edmundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107010985
Book Description
A thoroughly updated second edition that is an accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights.
