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With a clear, engaging and informal style, Understanding Jurisprudence is the perfect guide for students new to legal theory looking for a handy and stimulating starting point to this sometimes daunting subject. Key theories and theorists are introduced in a compact and practicable format, offering an accessible account of the central ideas without oversimplification. Further reading suggestions are included throughout, helping students to structure their research and navigate the jurisprudences extensive literature. Critical questions are also included in each chapter, to encourage students to think analytically about the law and legal theory and the numerous debates that it generates.
Professor Wacks is an experienced teacher of jurisprudence and excels in providing a concise, student-friendly introduction to the subject without avoiding the subtleties of this fascinating discipline. An extensive Online Resource Centre also accompanies this text and includes the following resources to support your studies:
Author analysis of topical controversies such as political debates and current legal problems
Interactive self-test glossary of key terms
Additional chapters on approaching the study of jurisprudence, including revision and examination tips
Further reading suggestions, including links to relevant and recent journal articles
Self-test questions on the key ideas from each chapter, with instant feedback
Salient Features:
An engaging writing style makes this a highly readable and interesting account for all law students, offering the ideal support for a legal theory module as well as providing valuable context for the study of law in general written by an experienced academic and author the text explains complex ideas clearly yet without avoiding the subtleties of the subject covers a broad range of thinkers and theories including Hart, Dworkin and Raz as well as discussion of feminist and critical race theory and separate chapters on theories of justice, rights and punishment.
Features key quotes and further reading to introduce and explain the central scholarly works, ideas and commentaries which shape legal theory. Includes a glossary to assist understanding and provide a quick-reference guide to the key terms and ideas central to jurisprudence. Accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre which includes advice on studying jurisprudence an interactive glossary of key terms, self-test questions and analysis of topical controversies such as political debates and current legal problems.
Table of Contents:
What`s it all about?
Natural law and morality
Classical legal positivism
Modern legal positivism
Working and the moral integrity of law
Legal realism
Law and social theory
Historical and anthropological jurisprudence
Theories of justice
Rights
Why obey the law?
Why punish?
Critical legal theory
Feminist and critical race theory
Jurisprudence understood?ISBN - 9780198723868
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Pages : 400
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