McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence

Höfundar: James Penner; Emmanuel Melissaris (Útgáfa: 5)
McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence

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Fully updated and revised by James Penner and Emmanuel Melissaris, McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence clearly breaks down the complexities of this often daunting yet fascinating subject. Sophisticated ideas are explained concisely and with clarity, ensuring the reader is aware of the subtleties of the subject yet not overwhelmed. With chapters dedicated to both key concepts and leading theorists, this text takes a wide-ranging look at jurisprudence and places central ideas in context.

In particular this text centres around one of the leading theorists, H. L. A Hart, and considers the landscape of jurisprudence in relation to his seminal The Concept of Law, looking at the key ideas which influenced him and considering the response to his work. Coverage of post-modern and feminist legal theory is also included, alongside discussion of key theorists such as Hobbes, Kant, and Rawls.

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Útgefandi
Oxford University Press Academic UK
ISBN
9780191666636
Print ISBN
9780199584345
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
5
Höfundar
James Penner; Emmanuel Melissaris
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2012-08-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • New to this edition
  • 1 What is Jurisprudence?
  • 1.1 Theories of the nature of law
  • 1.2 Particular philosophical issues in law
  • 1.3 The intellectual foundations of the social contract tradition
  • 1.3.1 What is liberalism?
  • 1.3.2 What is the social contract tradition?
  • 1.4 Against and beyond liberalism
  • PART I: Theories of the Nature of Law
  • 2 Natural Law
  • 2.1 Classical natural law
  • 2.2 Classical Greco-Roman natural law
  • 2.3 The Christian impact: Augustine and Aquinas
  • 2.4 The natural law revival: Fuller and Finnis
  • 2.5 Fuller’s procedural natural law
  • 2.6 John Finnis and the theory of natural rights
  • 3 Classical Legal Positivism: Bentham, Austin, and Kelsen
  • 3.1 Bentham’s concept of jurisprudence
  • 3.2 Bentham and Austin’s command theory of law
  • 3.3 The attachment of sanctions
  • 3.4 Kelsen’s pure theory of law
  • 3.5 The significance of classical positivist theories
  • 4 Hart: The Critical Project
  • 4.1 Hart’s methodology
  • 4.2 Hart’s gunman and the critique of command theory
  • 4.3 Hart and moral analyses of positive law
  • 5 Hart’s Theory of Law
  • 5.1 The importance of rules
  • 5.2 Obligation and the internal aspect of rules
  • 5.3 The union of primary and secondary rules
  • 5.4 The rule of recognition
  • 5.5 Legal systems and the importance of officials
  • 5.6 Public international law in Hart’s theory
  • 5.7 The significance of Hart’s theory
  • 6 Post-Hart Analytical Philosophy of Law: Dworkin and Raz
  • 6.1 An overview of Dworkin’s philosophy of law
  • 6.2 An overview of Raz’s philosophy of law
  • 6.3 Dworkin and Raz on rules and principles
  • 6.4 Dworkin’s theory of law: the rights thesis, the right answer thesis, and law as integrity
  • 6.5 Are lawyers moral philosophers?
  • 6.6 Raz and the authority of law
  • 6.7 The impact of the work of Dworkin and Raz
  • PART II: Particular Philosophical Issues in Law
  • 7 The Building Blocks of Law: Norms and their Nature
  • 7.1 Norms as exclusionary reasons
  • 7.2 The variety of norms
  • 7.3 The Hohfeldian characterisation of legal norms
  • 8 Governing and Obedience
  • 8.1 The duty to govern
  • 8.2 The right to rule
  • 8.3 The duty to obey
  • 9 Law and Adjudication
  • 9.1 The American legal realist challenge to the determinacy of legal rules
  • 9.2 Legal interpretivism
  • 9.3 Adjudication and the rule of law
  • PART III: The Intellectual Foundations of the Liberal Social Contract Tradition
  • 10 The Legal and Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
  • 10.1 Foundational assumptions
  • 10.2 ‘Man’s natural condition’ or the state of nature
  • 10.3 Exit from the state of nature and entry into the civil condition
  • 10.4 The social contract
  • 10.5 The sovereign’s powers and the form and content of government and law
  • 10.6 Is Hobbes’ political philosophy liberal? Is it suitable for our times?
  • 11 The Legal and Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
  • 11.1 A background note on Kant’s moral philosophy
  • 11.2 The foundations of Kant’s political and legal philosophy
  • 11.3 From innate right to private right and public right
  • 11.4 The original contract, the State and law
  • 11.5 Kant on revolution
  • 12 John Rawls’ Political Liberalism
  • 12.1 The ‘fact of reasonable pluralism’
  • 12.2 The ‘original position’ and Rawls’ political constructivism
  • 12.3 The principles of justice
  • 12.4 The stability of the liberal State
  • 12.5 The stages of application of the political conception of justice
  • 12.6 Justice and liberal legitimacy
  • PART IV: Against and Beyond Liberalism
  • 13 Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Law
  • 13.1 The groundwork of Marxist social and political theory
  • 13.2 The critical legal studies movement
  • 14 Feminist Legal Theory
  • 14.1 Sexism and law
  • 14.2 The varieties of feminist legal theory
  • 14.3 The work of Catharine MacKinnon
  • 14.4 A liberal feminist revival?
  • 15 Postmodern Legal Theory
  • 15.1 A critique of the project of modernity
  • 15.2 The transition from the modern to the postmodern
  • 15.3 Two pillars of modern jurisprudence challenged: the subject and meaning
  • 15.4 The practical significance of postmodern thinking about law
  • 15.5 Reconstruction
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
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  • J
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