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Author Wacks, Raymond.

Title Understanding jurisprudence : an introduction to legal theory / Raymond Wacks
Edition Third edition
Published Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description xviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- Natural law and morality -- Classical legal positivism -- Modern legal positivism -- Dworkin and the moral integrity of law -- Legal realism -- Law and social theory -- Historical and anthropological jurisprudence -- Theories of justice -- Rights -- Why obey the law? -- Why punish? -- Critical legal theory -- Feminist and critical race theory -- Jurisprudence understood?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jurisprudence.
Law -- Philosophy.
LC no. 2011942563
ISBN 9780199608263 (paperback: alk. paper)
0199608261 (paperback: alk. paper)