Understanding jurisprudence : an introduction to legal theory /
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| Author / Creator: | Wacks, Raymond, author. |
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2015. |
| Description: | xx, 379 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10157718 |
Table of Contents:
- New to this Edition
- Preface
- Preface to First edition
- List of Tables and Figure
- Acknowledgements
- 1. What's it all about?
- 1.1. An analgesic?
- 1.2. Reading
- 1.3. Why jurisprudence?
- 1.4. Descriptive, normative, and critical legal theory
- 1.5. Is eating people wrong?
- 1.6. The rule of law
- 1.6.1. Dicey
- 1.6.2. Modern approaches
- 1.7. The point of legal theory
- 2. Natural law and morality
- 2.1. Classical natural law theory
- 2.1.1. Plato and Aristotle
- 2.1.2. St Thomas Aquinas
- 2.2. Contemporary natural law theory
- 2.3. Natural law in political philosophy
- 2.3.1. Hobbes
- 2.3.2. Locke
- 2.3.3. Rousseau
- 2.4. The decline of natural law theory
- 2.5. The revival of natural law theory
- 2.6. John Finnis
- 2.7. Hard and soft natural law?
- 2.8. Moral realism
- 2.9. Critique
- 2.10. Law and morality
- 2.10.1. Natural law v positivism
- 210.2. Hart v Fuller
- 2.10.3. Hart v Devlin
- 2.11. Judicial morality: a case study
- 2.11.1. Moral questions
- 2.11.2. Semantic questions
- 2.11.3. Public or private morality?
- 2.11.4. The judge's duty
- 211.5. The judge's choice
- 2.11.6. The judge's surrender
- 2.11.7. The judge and the lawyer
- 2.12. Questions
- 2.13. Further reading
- 3. Classical legal positivism
- 3.1. What is legal positivism?
- 3.1.1. What legal positivism is not
- 3.2. Jeremy Bentham: the Luther of jurisprudence?
- 3.2.1. In search of determinacy
- 3.2.2. Judge & Co
- 3.2.3. Codification
- 3.3. John Austin: naive empiricist?
- 3.3.1. Imperatives
- 3.3.2. Laws properly so called
- 3.3.3. Law and power
- 3.4. Bentham and Austin compared
- 3.4.1. Their general approaches
- 3.4.2. The definition of law
- 3.4.3. Commands
- 3.4.4. Sovereignty
- 3.4.5. Sanctions
- 3.5. Questions
- 3.6. Further reading
- 4. Modern legal positivism
- 4.1. The foundations
- 4.2. HLA Hart
- 4.2.1. Hart as legal positivist
- 4.2.2. Law and language
- 4.2.3. Law as a system of rules
- 4.2.4. Social rules
- 4.2.5. Secondary rules
- 4.2.6. The rule of recognition
- 4.2.7. The existence of a legal system
- 4.2.8. The 'internal point of view'
- 4.2.9. The judicial function
- 4.2.10. 'An essay in descriptive sociology'?
- 4.2.11. Critique
- 4.3. Hans Kelsen
- 4.3.1. Unadulterated law
- 4.3.2. A hierarchy of norms
- 4.3.3. The Grundnorm
- 4.3.4. Validity, efficacy, and revolution
- 4.3.5. International law
- 4.3.6. Kelsenand Kant
- 4.3.7. Democracy and the rule of law
- 4.3.8. Critique
- 4.4. Joseph Raz
- 4.4.1. The 'sources thesis'
- 4.4.2. Practical reason
- 4.4.3. Committed and detached statements
- 4.4.4. Critique
- 4.5. Hard and soft positivism
- 4.6. Questions
- 4.7. Further reading
- 5. Dworkin and the moral integrity of law
- 5.1. An overview
- 5.2. The assault on positivism
- 5.2.1. Principles and policies
- 5.2.2. Hercules and hard cases
- 5.2.3. One right answer
- 5.2.4. The semantic sting
- 5.2.5. The rights thesis
- 5.2.6. Law as literature
- 5.2.7. Law as integrity
- 5.2.8. Community
- 5.3. Equality
- 5.4. Good lives and living well
- 5.5. The assault on Dworkin
- 5.6. Questions
- 5.7. Further reading
- 6. Legal realism
- 6.1. What are realists realistic about?
- 6.2. American Realism
- 6.2.1. Oliver Wendell Holmes jr
- 6.2.2. Karl Llewellyn
- 6.2.3. Jerome Frank
- 6.2.4. The American realist method
- 6.3. The Scandinavian realists
- 6.3.1. Alf Ross
- 6.3.2. Karl Olivecrona
- 6.3.3. Critique
- 6.4. Realism and psychology
- 6.5. Questions
- 6.6. Further reading
- 7. Law and social theory
- 7.1. What is a sociological perspective?
- 7.2. Roscoe Pound
- 7.2.1. Social interests and 'jural postulates'
- 7.2.2. Critique of Pound
- 7.3. Eugen Ehrlich
- 7.4. Émile Durkheim
- 7.4.1. Law and social solidarity
- 7.4.2. The function of punishment
- 7.4.3. Critique of Durkheim
- 7.5. Max Weber
- 7.5.1. Weber's typology of law
- 7.5.2. Weber's theory of legitimate domination
- 7.5.3. Capitalism and law
- 7.5.4. Critique of Weber
- 7.6. Karl Marx
- 7.6.1. Historicism
- 7.6.2. Base and superstructure
- 7.6.3. Ideology
- 7.6.4. Goodbye to law?
- 7.6.5. Legal fetishism
- 7.6.6. Conflict or consensus?
- 7.7. Michel Foucault
- 7.7.1. Power
- 7.7.2. The law
- 7.7.3. Critique
- 7.8. Jurgen Habermas
- 7.8.1. The modern state
- 7.8.2. The law
- 7.8.3. Critique
- 7.9. Autopoiesis
- 7.10. Whither the sociology of law?
- 7.11. Questions
- 7.12. Further reading
- 8. Historical and anthropological jurisprudence
- 8.1. Why do legal systems differ?
- 8.2. The historical school
- 8.2.1. Savigny
- 8.3. Sir Henry Maine
- 8.3.1. Theevolution of law
- 8.3.2. Naturallaw
- 8.3.3. Fictions
- 8.3.4. Critique
- 8.4. Anthropological jurisprudence
- 8.4.1. 'Law' in tribal societies
- 8.4.2. Bronislaw Malinowski
- 8.4.3. EAdamson Hoebel
- 8.4.4. Max Gluckman
- 8.4.5. Paul Bohannan
- 8.4.6. Leopold Pospisil
- 8.4.7. Other theorists
- 8.5. Legal pluralism
- 8.6. Questions
- 8.7. Further reading
- 9. Theories of justice
- 9.1. Utilitarianism
- 9.1.1. Consequences
- 9.1.2. Preferences
- 9.1.3. Critique of utilitarianism
- 9.2. The economic analysis of law
- 9.2.1. Critique
- 9.3. John Rawls
- 9.3.1. The rejection of utilitarianism
- 9.3.2. Social contractarianism
- 9.3.3. The original position
- 9.3.4. The two principles of justice
- 9.3.5. Reconsideration
- 9.3.6. Critique of Rawls
- 9.4. Robert Nozick
- 9.5. Questions
- 9.6. Further reading
- 10. Rights
- 10.1. What is a right?
- 10.2. Theories of rights
- 10.2.1. Right-based theories
- 10.3. Human rights
- 10.3.1. Communitananism
- 103.2. Relativism
- 10.3.3. Utilitarianism
- 10.3.4. Socialism
- 10.3.5. Legal positivism
- 10.3.6. Critical theory
- 10.4. The future of human rights
- 10.5. Animal rights
- 10.5.1. Early philosophical influences
- 10.5.2. Utilitarianism
- 10.5.3. Can animals have rights?
- 10.5.4. Soda! Contractarianism
- 10.5.5. Intrinsic worth
- 10.5.6. The right of animals
- 10.6. Questions
- 10.7. Further reading
- 11. Why obey the law?
- 11.1. The terms of the debate
- 11.1.1. A prima facie duty?
- 111.2. Justfying the duty
- 11.2. Questions
- 11.3. Further reading
- 12. Why punish?
- 12.1. Justifying punishment
- 12.2. Retributivism
- 12.2.1. Weak and strong retributivists
- 12.2.2. Critique
- 12.3. Consequentialism
- 12.4. Critique
- 12.5. Restorativejustice
- 12.6. Critique
- 12.7. Communication
- 12.8. Critique
- 12.9. Questions
- 12.10. Further reading
- 13. Critical legal theory
- 13.1. Critical Legal Studies
- 13.1.1. Trashine CLS?
- 13.2. Postmodern legal theory
- 13.2.1. What is it?
- 13.2.2. The death of the subject
- 13.2.3. Jacques Lacan
- 13.2.4. Jacques Oerrida
- 13.2.5. Foucault and Habermas
- 13.2.6. The postmodern agenda
- 13.2.7. Language
- 13.2.8. Critical theory and individual rights
- 13.2.9. Critique
- 13.3. Questions
- 13.4. Further reading
- 14. Feminist and critical race theory
- 14.1. Feminist legal theories
- 14.2. Origins of feminism
- 14.3. Legal feminisms
- 14.3.1. Liberal feminism
- 14.3.2. Radical feminism
- 14.3.3. Postmodern feminism
- 14.3.4. Difference feminism
- 14.3.5. Other feminisms
- 14.4. Critique
- 14.5. Critical race theory
- 14.5.1. CRT and feminist theory
- 14.5.2. CRT and postmodernism
- 14.6. Questions
- 14.7. Further reading
- 15. Jurisprudence understood?
- Glossary
- Index
