Normative Jurisprudence

by Robin West

Book Overview

Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence - natural law, legal positivism, and critical legal studies - that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for just such normative scholarship. Over the last fifty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052146000X
• ISBN13: 9780521460002
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"