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Zusatztext `The authors draw from disparate sources, historic and geographic, for conceptual inspiration and example. The authors' reliance on the Greeks and Romans and the work of Thomas Aquinas, and their resulting global approach to the theory of law, counterbalances the specificity of school into which jurisprudential enquiry has migrated. The authors do not proceed from an overly rigorous process of definition and methodology but from a common sense and learned approach drawn from their independent, clear-thinking reflection. As a consequence, those who do not agree with everything in the book will find much of value so far as the authors' intuitive analyses elucidate, correspond with, and broaden their own experience and views.'Diarmuid Rossa Phelan, Dublin University Law Journal Informationen zum Autor Garrett Barden is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork in Ireland. He received his university education at Dublin, Louvain, Heythrop and Exeter College, Oxford. In the early part of his career he carried out anthropological fieldwork in Warburton, Western Australia, and taught philosophy in New York and Dublin. He then worked at the Department of Philosophy in University College Cork from 1972 until his retirement in 1999. During this time he served terms as Assistant Dean and Dean of the Arts Faculty of University College Cork. During his career he has been on several occasions a Visiting Professor (in Rennes, France; Nitra and Bratislava in Slovakia; and Reykjavík, Iceland) and he is now a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Akureyri in Iceland.Tim Murphy is Visiting Professor of Law at the University of North Malaysia. He received his university education at Cork, Warwick and Maynooth. He previously held law faculty positions at the University of Sheffield (1989-1991), the University of Nancy II (1991-1992), University College Cork (1992-2005), and the University of Akureyri, Iceland. In 1995 he was a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the National Law School in Bangalore, India. Klappentext This book offers an account of the nature of law that refutes modern, positivist theories and argues that law exists in all human communities before it is formally expressed. Drawing on anthropology and classical theory, the theory of law offered will be of interest to students of philosophy, anthropology, and the sociological study of law. Zusammenfassung This book offers an account of the nature of law that refutes modern, positivist theories and argues that law exists in all human communities before it is formally expressed. Drawing on anthropology and classical theory, the theory of law offered will be of interest to students of philosophy, anthropology, and the sociological study of law....
