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020 _a9781139043922 (ebook)
020 _z9780521460002 (hardback)
020 _z9780521738293 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aK230.W475
_bA36 2011
082 0 0 _a340
_222
100 1 _aWest, Robin,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNormative Jurisprudence :
_bAn Introduction /
_cRobin West.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (220 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aNormative 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.
650 0 _aJurisprudence
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521460002
830 0 _aCambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139043922
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37936
_d37936