Jurisprudence / Edition 2

by J. G. Riddall

Overview

This new edition of Jurisprudence brings the book fully up to date and incorporates the following new topics: Utilitarianism, Scandinavian realism, Feminism, Liberalism, the New Critics, and the Hart v Dworkin debate. It also includes a separate chapter on Dworkin's Law's Empire, and the previous chapter on Rights has been substantially revised, to make this a useful and highly readable addition to the student's library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780406900104
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	02/24/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

J. G. Riddall MA (TCD) of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law, was formerly Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

1. 'I hate jurisprudence'
2. Teeth that can bite
3. Austin toppled?
4. A matter of rules
5. It stands to reason
6. Of big fish and little fish
7. And yet, and yet...
8. There all the time?
9. How judges decide cases
10. Talking past?
11. The great pyramid
12. The point of it all?
13. Pleasures and pains
14. On stilts?
15. Banging on the table
16. You really want to know?
17. Northern Light
18. Wholly estimable?
19. Sez who?
20. Close your ears, Mr Knox
21. It shouldn't be allowed!
22. Two bites of the cherry?
23. The man on the beach
Index