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Title

Jurisprudence : themes and concepts / [edited by] Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis and Lindsay Farmer; with contributions from Gavin Anderson ... [et al.].

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Veitch, Scott
• Christodoulidis, Emilios
• Farmer, Lindsay, 1963-

Description

xviii, 278 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This new book takes an innovative and novel approach to the study of jurisprudence. Drawing together a range of specialists, making original contributions, it provides a summary, analysis, and critique of basic themes in, and major contributions to, the study of jurisprudence. The book explores issues and ideas in jurisprudence in a way that integrates them with legal study more broadly, avoiding the tendency in recent years for the subject to become overly inward-looking, specialist and technical, leaving students and the subject adrift. It picks up mid-range concepts such as rights, sovereignty, and adjudication and charts their interrelation and uses in law and legal theory. The approach taken to the subject is an interdisciplinary one, and involves making linkages with contemporary issues in political and social theory, such as the changing role of the state, forms of dispute resolution and the courts. It also addresses topics not normally covered, or covered only indirectly in other jurisprudence textbooks, such as globalisation and legal culture. Its coverage is therefore broad and links legal, political, philosophical, and social analysis." -- Publisher's information.

Subject

• Rule of law
• Jurisprudence
• Law > Philosophy
• Law > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the relationship between law and politics -- Sovereignty -- The rule of law -- The "inner morality of law" -- Rights -- Legalism and legality -- Citizenship: competing conceptions -- Law, politics, and globalisation -- Problems of the rule of law in political transitions -- The rule of law and the state of emergency -- Introduction to legal reasoning -- Legal formalism, legal realism, and the open texture of law -- Three theories of legal reasoning -- Justice, natural law, and the limits of rule following -- Equality, difference, and domination: feminist critiques of adjudication -- Trials, facts, and narratives -- Understanding discrimination -- Judging in an unjust society -- Law in modern society and legal modernity -- Formal legal rationality and legal modernity -- Dilemmas of modern law -- After modernity? Law and globalisation -- Legal pluralism -- Juridification -- Law ideology and legitimation: the Marxist critique -- Displacing the juridical: Foucault on power and discipline -- Law in the risk society.

ISBN

• 9781845680701 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 1845680707 (hbk)
• 9781859418154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1859418155 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2007005432

OCLC

82473675

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library