Jurisprudence: Cambridge Essays

by Gross, Ross Harrison (Editor), Hyman Gross (Editor)

Overview

Each of the essays included in this volume illuminates an aspect of law, reflecting an unorthodox perception of jurisprudence which combines interests in philosophy, legal theory, criminology, legal history, political and constitutional theory and the history of ideas. This work will broaden the jurisprudential scope of practitioners' professional concerns, but help academics enhance their knowledge of the wealth of information for their own studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198252894
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	11/28/1996
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 0.93(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	viii
1.	Bluntness and Bricolage	1
2.	Making Sense out of Nonsense	29
3.	Theories of Justice, Traditions of Virtue	55
4.	Modern Retributivism	73
5.	Preventing Impunity	95
6.	The Equality of Mercy	107
7.	Causation outside the Law	127
8.	Fairness, Truth, and Silence	149
9.	The Theory of the British Constitution	173
10.	The Territorial State	207
11.	Liberty and Legal Obligation in Hobbes's Leviathan	231
12.	T. H. Green, J. S. Mill, and Isaiah Berlin on the Nature of Liberty and Liberalism	257