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The Legal Philosophy and Influence of Jeremy Bentham: Essays on Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence

The Legal Philosophy and Influence of Jeremy Bentham: Essays on Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence

Author: Guillaume Tusseau
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138686069

Published In: May 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781138020573

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Gathering together an impressive array of legal scholars from around the world, this book features essays on Jeremy Bentham's major legal theoretical treatise, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence reassessing Bentham's theories of law as well as his impact on jurisprudence. While offering a suggestive picture of contemporary Bentham studies, the book provides a thorough examination of concepts such as legal discourse, legal norms, legal system, and subjective legal positions.

The book compares Bentham's approach with other landmark theories and the works of major legal philosophers including Austin, Hart and Kelsen, and explores Bentham's treatise through major trends in contemporary legal thought, such as the imperative theory of law, deontic logic, Scandinavian and American legal realisms, the pure theory of law, and critical legal thought.

Resisting any apologetic stance, the book elucidates how consistent with Bentham's all-encompassing project of utilitarian reform 'Limits' turns out to be, and how this sheds light on contemporary modes of governance. The book will be great use and interest to scholars and students of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory, 19th century philosophy, and public law.

1. Introduction, Guillaume Tusseau

Part 1: A Manuscript's Odyssey

2. Constructing the Text: Jeremy Bentham's Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, Philip Schofield

Part 2: The Foundation of General Legal Theory (I): International looks at Limits

3. The Theory of the Legal norm: Typology of Legal Beings, Rafael Hernandez Marin

4. The Theory of the Legal order, Pierluigi Chiassoni

5. Bentham's Deontic Logic, Jose Juan Moreso

6. An Old English Tale? Bentham's Theory of The Force of a Law, Guillaume Tusseau

7. Of the Limits of the Civil Branch of Jurisprudence: Background, definitions and limits of Bentham's discussion on civil law in Limits, Anne Brunon-Ernst

Part 3: The Foundation of General legal Theory(II): External looks at Limits

8. Bentham's Limits and Austin, Michael Lobban

9. Bentham's Command versus Hart's Authoritative Reason. An Examination of the Principal Interpretations of Bentham's Imperative Theory of Law in Hart's 'Commands and Authoritative Legal Reasons', Xiaobo Zhai

10. Bentham's Limits and Hohfeld, Andrew Halpin

11. The "Real" Bentham. Bentham and the Legal Realists, Francesca Poggi and Francesco Ferraro

12. Bentham and Kelsen, Michel van de Kerchove

13. Bentham's "Limits", Deontic Logic, and the Formal Representation of a Normative System, Lars Lindahl

Part 4: Limits and the Architecture of Bentham's Project

14. The Theory of Legislation, David Lieberman

15. Limits and Indirect Legislation, Stephen Engelmann

16. The Impossible Code: 'Limits' and Bentham's French Manuscripts, Emmanuelle de Champs

17. Reducing Limits of the Realm of Possibilities: Law, Action and Will in Jeremy Bentham's Thought, Malik Bozzo-Rey

18. The notion of limit in Bentham's theory of fictions, Jean-Pierre Clero

19. The legislator's tormented soul: Utility as practical reason in Bentham's Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, Denis Baranger