Jurisprudence - Softcover

Ratnapala, Suri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107612578 ISBN 13: 9781107612570

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Jurisprudence offers a comprehensive overview of legal theory and philosophy. It demystifies the discipline's major ideas, promoting a deeper understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. It critically assesses the major schools of jurisprudential thought throughout history and to the present.

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

Jurisprudence offers a comprehensive overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written in plain English, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, promoting a deeper understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. It critically assesses the major schools of jurisprudential thought throughout history and to the present, from Plato and Aristotle to Enlightenment thinkers, postmodernists and economic analysts. The book challenges students to reconsider their moral intuitions in light of established theories. This edition examines recent debates and literature in legal philosophy. It features new material on scientific advances in cognition and human behaviour in relation to the law. The book expands significantly on its discussion of natural law theory, evolutionary jurisprudence and theories of justice. Special attention is paid to the revival of theological natural law, challenges to legal positivism, assessments of Scandinavian realism and critiques of law and economics from the Austrian economic perspective.

Biografía del autor:

Professor Anura Surindra (Suri) Ratnapala is Professor of Public Law at the T C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. He teaches constitutional law, jurisprudence and constitutional political economy; fields in which he has published extensively. He has the degrees of LLB (Colombo); LLM (Macquarie) and PhD (Qld). He is a member of the Australian Academy of Law.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107612578
• ISBN 13: 9781107612570
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432