Jurisprudence / Suri Ratnapala.

Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

2nd ed.

83611

Jurisprudence.

1. Introduction

Part I. Law as it is

2. British legal positivism : philosophical roots and command theories

3. Herbert Hart's new beginning and new questions

4. Germanic legal positivism : Han Kelsen's quest for the pure theory of law

5. Realism in legal theory

Part II. Law and morality

6. Natural law tradition from antiquity to the enlightenment

7. John Finnis' restatement of classical natural law

8. Separation of law and morality

Part III. Social dimensions of law

9. Sociological jurisprudence and sociology of law

10. Radical jurisprudence : challenged to liberal legal theory

11. Economic analysis of law

12. Evolutionary jurisprudence

Part IV. Rights and justice

13. Fundamental legal conceptions : the building blocks of legal norms

14. Justice.

Professor Ratnapala is the Professor of Public Law at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. This is an updated edition of his concise and clearly-written 2009 introduction to the mysteries of legal theory

Previous edition: 2009.

Included bibliographical references and index.

9781107612570

xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm