Suri RatnapalaCambridge University PressEdition: 3, 11/9/2017EAN 9781316621172, ISBN10: 1316621170Paperback, 472 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cmLanguage: EnglishThe third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas, the author deepens students' understanding of the perennial debates about the nature and function of law and its relation to justice. Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics, Suri Ratnapala's Jurisprudence remains an essential text for students and researchers of jurisprudence and legal theory.1. IntroductionPart I. Law As It Is2. British legal positivismphilosophical roots and command theories3. Herbert Hart's new beginning and new questions4. Germanic legal positivismHans Kelsen's quest for the pure theory of law5. Realism in legal theoryPart II. Law and Morality6. Natural law tradition from antiquity to the Enlightenment7. John Finnis' restatement of classical natural law8. Separation of law and moralityPart III. Social Dimensions of Law9. Sociological jurisprudence and sociology of law10. Radical jurisprudencechallenges to liberal legal theory11. Economic analysis of law12. Evolutionary jurisprudencePart IV. Rights and Justice13. Fundamental legal conceptionsthe building blocks of legal norms14. Justice.
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