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Jurisprudence – An Introduction — Revised

This work is aimed at students about to embark on a course in jurisprudence, legal theory or legal philosophy.

Publication Language: English
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ISBN/ISSN: 9780409059441

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This work is aimed at students about to embark on a course in jurisprudence, legal theory or legal philosophy.

It analyses the various philosophies extensively, and indicates the intensity of jurisprudential debates relating to South African law.

 

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Table of contents

Chapter 1: - The story of natural law and its opponents

Chapter 2: - "The empire of darkness and the region of light":

Chapter 3: - The American realists

Chapter 4: - Ronald Dworkin and reconstruction

Chapter 5: - The rebirth of natural law

Chapter 6: - Liberalism, libertarianism and socialism: The theories of Rawls, Nozick and contemporary socialists

Chapter 7: - Critical legal studies

Chapter 8: - Feminism and the law

Chapter 9: - The communitarian debate and liberalism

Chapter 10: - Legal hermeneutics and deconstruction