Normative jurisprudence: an introduction
by West, Robin
"This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals"-- "Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence - natural law, legal positivism, an…
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"This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals"--
"Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence - natural law, legal positivism, and critical legal studies - that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for just such normative scholarship. Over the last fifty years or so, all of these traditions, although for different reasons, have taken a number of different turns - toward empirical analysis, conceptual analysis, or Foucaultian critique - and away from straightforward normative criticism. As a result, normative legal scholarship - scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform - is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought. The book criticizes those developments and suggests a return, albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges, to this traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship"--
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 209 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139127318, 1139127314, 9780521460002, 052146000X, 9780521738293, 0521738296, 9781139043922, 1139043927, 9781139116657, 1139116657, 1283298368, 9781283298360, 9781139114486, 1139114484, 1107224039, 9781107224032, 1139124234, 9781139124232, 1139122398, 9781139122399, 9786613298362, 6613298360, 1139112295, 9781139112291
- oclc:ocn770109407
- LC Classification:K230.W475
- Dewey Decimal:340
Table of Contents
Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.
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