On the history of the idea of law / Shirley Robin Letwin ; edited by Noel B. Reynolds.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Law -- Philosophy -- History.

Jurisprudence -- History.

Introduction: the idea of law

Part 1. Law anchored to a cosmic order: 1. Plato

2. Aristotle

3. Cicero

Part 2. The Christian revision: 4. St. Augustine

5. St. Thomas Aquinas

Part 3. The modern quest: 6. Thomas Hobbes

7. John Locke

8. Immanuel Kant

9. Jeremy Bentham

Part 4. The significance of rules: 10. From historical jurisprudence to realism: Savigny, Jhering, Duguit, Holmes, Gray, Frank

11. The defence of rules: Edward Levi, Hans Kelsen, H.L.A. Hart

Part 5 The idea of law repudiated: 12. Marxist theories

13. Political jurisprudence 1: from realism to feminist jurisprudence

14. Political jurisprudence 2: Ronald Dworkin

Part 6. New foundations: 15. A skeptical jurisprudence: Michael Oakeshott

16. Postscript: morality, individualism, and law

Index.

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