Methodology of Legal Theory

Informationen zum Autor Michael Giudice! York University! Canada! Wil Waluchow! McMaster University! Canada and Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London! UK. Zusammenfassung Collects articles that are organized under four categories: problems and purposes of legal theory; the role of epistemology and semantics in theorising about the nature of law; the relation between morality and legal theory; and, the scope of phenomena a general jurisprudence ought to address. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Problems and Aims: What is jurisprudence about? Theories! definitions! concepts! or conceptions of law?! Michael D. Bayles; General jurisprudence: a 25th anniversary essay! Leslie Green; Leaving the Hart-Dworkin debate! Keith Culver; The methodology of jurisprudence: 30 years off the point! Andrew Halpin; Ways of understanding diversity among theories of law! Michael Giudice. Part II Issues of Semantics and Epistemology: Two views of the nature of the theory of law: a partial comparison! Joseph Raz; Jurisprudence and necessity! Danny Priel; Jurisprudence as practical philosophy! Gerald J. Postema; Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence! Brian Leiter. Part III Perspectives on Morality in the Theory of Law: Hart's postscript and the character of political philosophy! Ronald Dworkin; Law and what I truly should decide! John Finnis; Concepts of law! Liam Murphy; Methodology in jurisprudence: a critical survey! Julie Dickson. Part IV Issues of Scope and Concepts: Transnational communities and the concept of law! Roger Cotterrell; Have concepts! will travel: analytical jurisprudence in a global context! William Twining; Socio-legal positivism and a general jurisprudence! Brian Z. Tamanaha; Doin' the transsystemic: legal systems and legal traditions! H. Patrick Glenn; Name index.

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• Authors: Michael Giudice, Michael Del Mar Giudice, Giudice Michael, Wil Waluchow, Waluchow Wil
• Assisted by: Dr. Maksymilian Del Mar (Editor), Maksymilian Del Mar (Editor), Michael Giudice (Editor), Wil Waluchow (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9780754628903
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2890-3
• No. of pages: 558
• Series: The Library of Essays in Contemporary Legal Theory; The Library of Essays in Contemporary Legal Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, Legal History, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Land & real estate law, Land and real estate law / Real property law