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Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. Building on a pragmatic view of jurisprudence, The Great Juristic Bazaar explores different ways of reading and using Juristic texts, to set them in context, to bring them to life and to engage with the reader's own concerns.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction. Jurist's Texts: R.G. Collingwood's autobiography: one reader's response; The bad man revisited; Academic law and legal philosophy: the significance of Herbert Hart; Talk about realism; Karl Llewellyn's unfinished agenda: law in society and the job of Juristic method; Reading Bentham; Imagining Bentham; Globalization, pluralism and post-modernism: Santos, Haack and Calvino; Reviving general jurisprudence; The great Juristic bazaar. Lawyers Stories: Lawyers stories; Anchored narratives: a comment; Good stories and true stories; Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact; The ratio decidendi of the parable of the prodigal son; Index.
About the author
William Twining, Research Professor of Law at University College London, UK, having been Quain Professor of Jurisprudence from 1982 to 1986.
Summary
Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. Building on a pragmatic view of jurisprudence, The Great Juristic Bazaar explores different ways of reading and using Juristic texts, to set them in context, to bring them to life and to engage with the reader's own concerns.
