Knowing What the Law Is - Legal Theory in a New Key

This book provides a selective and somewhat cheeky account of prominent positions in legal theory, such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, sociological systems theory, institutionalism and critical legal studies. It presents a relational approach to law and a new perspective on legal sources.The book explores topics of legal theory in a playful manner. It is written and composed in a way that refutes the widespread prejudice that legal theory is a dreary subject, with a cast of characters that occasionally interact in order to illustrate the claims of the book.Legal experts claim to know what the law is. Legal theory-or jurisprudence-explores whether such claims are warranted. The discipline first emerged at the turn of the 20th century, when the self-confidence of both legal scholarship and judicial craftsmanship became severely shattered, but the crisis continues to this day.>

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Somek
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781509951338
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-5133-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law