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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826032403321

Autore

West Robin <1954->

Titolo

Normative jurisprudence : an introduction / / Robin West [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22403-9

1-139-12423-4

1-283-29836-8

1-139-12239-8

9786613298362

1-139-04392-7

1-139-11665-7

1-139-12731-4

1-139-11229-5

1-139-11448-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law

Classificazione

POL035010

Disciplina

340

Soggetti

Jurisprudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.

Sommario/riassunto

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.