Normative Jurisprudence - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Robin West is an Associate Dean for Research and Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of several books and more than a hundred articles on issues in feminist legal theory, law and literature, law and humanities, jurisprudence and constitutional law and theory, most recently, Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender (2007) and Re-Imagining Justice (2003). She is the recipient of a J. B. White Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities and she has held the John Carroll Research Chair at Georgetown. Klappentext This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it. Zusammenfassung Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it! on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It suggests a return! albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges! to the traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Revitalizing natural law; 2. Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform; 3. Critical legal studies - the missing years; 4. Reconstructing normative jurisprudence.

Product details

• Authors: Robin West
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521738293
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73829-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law; Cambridge Introductions to Phi; Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law