Legalism: Law, Morals, and Political Trials

by Judith N. Shklar

Book Overview

Legalism deals with the area between political theory and jurisprudence. Its aim is to bridge the intellectual gulf separating jurisprudence from other kinds of social theory by explaining why, in the view of historians and political theorists, legalism has fallen short in its approach to both morals and politics. Judith Shklar proposes that, instead of regarding law as a discrete entity resting upon a rigid system of definitions, legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674523512
• ISBN13: 9780674523517
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A critique of legal positivism

Judith Shklar, recently deceased, wrote this book in 1964 to disprove the legitimacy of law based on legal positivist notions. According to Shklar, law is not based on the evolution of antique writings, but is simply an extension of politics.