Normative jurisprudence [electronic resource] : an introduction / Robin West.
2011
K230.W475 A36 2011
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Title
Normative jurisprudence [electronic resource] : an introduction / Robin West.
Author
West, Robin, 1954-
ISBN
9780521460002
052146000X
9780521738293
0521738296
9781139114486 (electronic book)
052146000X
9780521738293
0521738296
9781139114486 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
ix, 209 p.
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K230.W475 A36 2011
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence
Revitalizing natural law
Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform
Critical legal studies : the missing years
Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.
Revitalizing natural law
Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform
Critical legal studies : the missing years
Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.