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Some Reflections on Jurisprudence

Some Reflections on Jurisprudence

Name: Some Reflections on Jurisprudence
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107600577
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Author: W. W. Buckland
ISBN: 9781107600577

By W. W. Buckland

Cambridge University Press July 2011

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ISBN-13: 9781107600577
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2011
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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'Jurisprudence,' the author writes, 'is a most hospitable word. It can be understood to include not only the analysis of legal concepts, but also all those topics which are discussed under the rubric 'philosophy of law'. Writers on these subjects are either those concerned with the rational basis of law - why law is binding on us and what are the limits on the binding force; or those who seek to formulate an ideal system of law.' It is these writers and their theories and arguments, so far as they make contact with positive law, which form the main topic of the present work, which was originally published in 1949.

Contents:: Preface; 1. Jurisprudence and legal philosophy; 2. Current philosophies of law and positive law; 3. The actual and the ideal; 4. Jurisprudence not a philosophy; 5. The command theory and its rivals; 6. Particular and general jurisprudence; 7. The state; 8. Politics and polities; 9. Legal sovereign and political sovereign; 10. Some legal concepts; index of modern authors cited.