Jurisprudence 3rd Edition

Author: Suri Ratnapala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316621172

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781107612570
Published In: August 2017
Format: Paperback
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The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy.

Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas, the author deepens students' understanding of the perennial debates about the nature and function of law and its relation to justice.

Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics, Suri Ratnapala's Jurisprudence remains an essential text for students and researchers of jurisprudence and legal theory.

Logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy
Highly readable text written in engaging prose which locates the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas
Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics

1. Introduction

Part 1. Law As It Is:

2. British legal positivism: Philosophical roots and command theories

3. Herbert Hart's new beginning and new questions

4. Germanic legal positivism: Hans Kelsen's quest for the pure theory of law

5. Realism in legal theory

Part 2. Law and Morality:

6. Natural law tradition from antiquity to the Enlightenment

7. John Finnis' restatement of classical natural law

8. Separation of law and morality

Part 3. Social Dimensions of Law:

9. Sociological jurisprudence and sociology of law