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On the History of the Idea of Law

On the History of the Idea of Law

Name: On the History of the Idea of Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521090902
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Author: Shirley Robin Letwin; Noel B. Reynolds
ISBN: 9780521090902

Edited by Shirley Robin Letwin · Noel B. Reynolds

Cambridge University Press October 2005

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ISBN-13: 9780521090902
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2005
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato’s writings to today. Professor Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H. L. A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence. In all of this, Professor Letwin finds the rule of law to be the key to modern liberty and the standard of justice. This is the final work of the distinguished historian and theorist Shirley Robin Letwin, a major figure in the revival of Conservative thought and doctrine from 1960 onwards, who died in 1993.

Contents:: Editor’s preface; Introduction; Part I. Law Anchored to a Cosmic Order:
1. Plato; 2. Aristotle; 3. Cicero; Part II. The Christian Revision:
4. St Augustine; 5. St Thomas Aquinas; Part III. The Modern Quest:
6. Thomas Hobbes; 7. John Locke; 8. Immanuel Kent; 9. Jeremy Bentham; Part IV. The Significance of Rules:
10. From historical jurisprudence to realism; 11. The Defence of Rules; Part V. The Idea of Law Repudiated:
12. Marxist Theories; 13. Political jurisprudence 1; 14. Political jurisprudence 2; Part VI. New Foundations:
15. A skeptical jurisprudence; 16. Postscript; Index.