Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence

Klappentext This book represents a serious and sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory. Zusammenfassung This book is both a work of intellectual history and a contribution to legal philosophy. It represents a serious and philosophically sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory! demonstrating that legal positivism has been a misunderstood and underappreciated perspective through most of twentieth-century American legal thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowlegments; 1. Why study legal positivism; 2. Positivism and formalism; 3. The varieties of formalism; 4. Legal process and the shadow of positivism; 5. The false choice between the Warren Court and legal process; 6. Fundamental rights and the problem of insatiability; 7. New legal positivism and the incorporation of morality.

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• Authors: Anthony J. Sebok, Anthony J. (Brooklyn College Sebok
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521057165
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05716-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries