A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence Volume 11: Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World /

• Main Author: Postema, G.J (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy, general.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Law, general.

Volume 11, the sixth of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a fresh, philosophically engaged, critical interpretation of the main currents of jurisprudential thought in the English-speaking world of the 20th century. It tells the tale of two lec...

Table of Contents:

• A Note on the Author
• General Editor’s Preface to Volumes 11 and 12 of the Treatise
• Preface to Volume 11
• Acknowledgements
• Part I – Prologue
• Chapter 1 - Analytic Jurisprudence Established
• Chapter 2 - Justice Holmes: A New Path for American Jurisprudence
• Chapter 3 - Realism and Reaction
• Chapter 4 - Implicit Law and Principles of Legality
• Chapter 5 - Economic Jurisprudence
• Chapter 6 - Critical Jurisprudence and the Rule of Law
• Chapter 7 - Hart’s Critical Positivism
• Chapter 8 - Positivism Extended: Institutions, Sources, Authority, and Law and Moral Reasoning
• Chapter 9 - Positivism Challenged: Interpretation, Integrity, and Law
• Chapter 10 - The Incorporation Debate
• Chapter 11 - Conventions and the Foundations of Law
• Chapter 12 - Analytic Jurisprudence Confronted
• Chapter 13 - Concluding Note
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names.