@article{840148,
      author = {West, Robin,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/840148},
      title = {Normative jurisprudence an introduction / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {840148},
      pages = {ix, 209 p.},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      year = {2011},
}