Normative Jurisprudence
An Introduction
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- Author: Robin West, Georgetown University, Washington DC
- Date Published: November 2011
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521460002
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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 years or so, all of these traditions, although for different reasons, have taken a number of different turns – toward empirical analysis, conceptual analysis or Foucaultian critique – and away from straightforward normative criticism. As a result, normative legal scholarship – scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform – is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought. The book criticizes those developments and suggests a return, albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges, to this traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship.
Read more- Can be read by any educated audience and uses ordinary, non-specialized language
- Explores what is distinctive about legal scholarship and indirectly the persona of the legal scholar
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521460002
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Revitalizing natural law
2. Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform
3. Critical legal studies – the missing years
4. Reconstructing normative jurisprudence.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Federal Legislative & Administrative Clinic
- Literature and the Law
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