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Author(s): Suri Ratnapala
ISBN(s): 9780521614832, 052161483X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 052161483X

ISBN 13: 978-0521614832

Author:  Suri Ratnapala 

Jurisprudence is about the nature of law and justice. It embraces studies and theories from a range of disciplines such as history, sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology and even economics. Why do people obey the law? How does law serve society? What is law’s relation to morality? What is the nature of rights? This book introduces and critically discusses the major traditions of jurisprudence. Written in a lucid and accessible style, Suri Ratnapala considers a wide range of views, bringing conceptual clarity to the debates at hand. From Plato and Aristotle to the medieval scholastics, from Enlightenment thinkers to postmodernists and economic analysts of law, this important volume examines the great philosophical debates and gives insight into the central questions concerning law and justice.

Table of contents: 

1 Introduction

  • Rewards of jurisprudence

  • Jurisprudence

  • The arrangement of the contents of this book

  • Old debates and new frontiers

PART 1: LAW AS IT IS

2 British Legal Positivism

  • Positivism and logical positivism

  • Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan

  • Jeremy Bentham: law and the principle of utility

  • John Austin’s command theory of law

  • Herbert Hart’s new beginning: the burial of the command concept of law

  • British positivism’s contribution to jurisprudence

3 Germanic Legal Positivism: Hans Kelsen’s Quest for the Pure Theory of Law

  • From empiricism to transcendental idealism

  • From transcendental idealism to the pure theory of law

  • Distinguishing legal and moral norms

  • Validity and the basic norm

  • Logical unity of the legal order and determining whether a norm belongs to the legal order

  • Legitimacy and revolution

  • International law

  • An evaluation of the pure theory of law

4 Realism in Legal Theory

  • Legal formalism and legal positivism

  • American realism

  • Scandinavian realism

PART 2: LAW AND MORALITY

5 Natural Law Tradition in Jurisprudence

  • Law of nature, natural right and natural law

  • Two great questions in natural law theory

  • Fusion of law and morals in early societies

  • Natural law thinking in Greek philosophy

  • Reception of natural law in Rome

  • Christian natural law

  • Theological beginnings of a secular natural law

  • Rise of secular natural law: natural rights and social contract

  • John Finnis’ restatement of classical natural law

  • The enduring legacy of natural law theory

6 Separation of Law and Morality

  • Lon Fuller on the morality of law

  • Ronald Dworkin and the integrity of law

PART 3: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF LAW

7 Sociological Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law

  • Sociology, sociology of law and sociological jurisprudence

  • Society and class struggle: the sociology of Karl Marx

  • Max Weber and the rationalisation of the law

  • Law and social solidarity: Émile Durkheim’s legal sociology

  • The living law: the legal sociology of Eugen Ehrlich

  • Roscoe Pound and law as social engineering

  • The achievements of the sociological tradition

8 Radical Jurisprudence: Challenges to Liberal Legal Theory

  • Liberalism and liberal legal theory

  • Challenge of the critical legal studies (CLS) movement

  • Postmodernist challenge

  • Feminist jurisprudence

  • Challenges to liberal jurisprudence: concluding thoughts

9 Economic Analysis of Law

  • Background and basic concepts

  • Transaction costs and the law

  • Efficiency of the common law hypothesis

  • Public choice theory: the economics of legislation

  • Efficiency, wealth maximisation and justice

10 Evolutionary Jurisprudence

  • Introduction

  • Argument from design versus the principle of the accumulation of design

  • The common law beginnings and the Darwinians before Darwin

  • Eighteenth century evolutionism compared with the German historical approach

  • The Austrian school and spontaneous order

  • Scientific explanations

  • Role of purposive action in legal evolution: the contribution of institutional theory

  • Pathways of legal evolution: the lessons from new institutionalism

  • Normative implications

PART 4: RIGHTS AND JUSTICE

11 Fundamental Legal Conceptions: the Building Blocks of Legal Norms

  • Bentham and the classification of legal mandates

  • Hohfeld’s analysis of jural relations: the exposition of fundamental legal conceptions

  • Connecting the two ‘boxes’ in Hohfeld’s system

  • Some logical puzzles in Hohfeld’s system

  • Value of Hohfeld’s system

12 Justice

  • Justice according to law and justice of the law

  • Justice as virtue

  • Legal justice

  • Distributive justice as social justice

  • Justice as fairness: Rawls’ theory of justice

  • Entitlement theory of justice: Nozick’s response to Rawls

  • Evolutionary theory of justice

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