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9780470779866

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470779866

  • ISBN10:

    0470779861

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today, written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers and legal theorists Each essay incorporates essential background material on the history and logic of the topic, as well as advancing the arguments Represents a wide variety of perspectives on current legal theory

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Contending Schools of Thought
Legal Positivism
Natural Law Theory
American Legal Realism
Economic Rationality in the Analysis of Legal Rules and Institutions
Critical Legal Theory
Four Themes in Feminist Legal Theory: Difference, Dominance, Domesticity, and Denial
Doctrinal Domains and Their Philosophical Foundations
Criminal Law Theory
Philosophy of Tort Law: Between the Banal and the Esoteric
Contract Theory
The Commons and the Anticommons in the Law and Theory of Property
Legal Evidence
Perennial Topics
Obligation
Theories of Rights
A Contractarian Approach to Punishment
Responsibility
Legislation
Constitutionalism
Adjudication and Legal Reasoning
Privacy
Continental Perspectives
On Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory
Some Contemporary Trends in Continental Philosophy of Law
Methodological Concerns
Objectivity
Can There Be a Theory of Law?
Index
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