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Normative jurisprudence : an introduction /
"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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |