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245 10 a| Normative jurisprudenceh| [electronic resource] :b| an introduction /c| Robin West.;

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300 a| ix, 209 p. ;c| 24 cm.;

490 1 a| Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 8 a| Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

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Normative jurisprudence an introduction / Robin West.

Author/creator	West, Robin, 1954-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Description	ix, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Jurisprudence.

Series	Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law. ^A782535
Contents	Introduction : toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : reconstructing normative jurisprudence.
Abstract	"This book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011009193
ISBN	9780521460002 (hbk.)
ISBN	052146000X (hbk.)
ISBN	9780521738293 (pbk.)
ISBN	0521738296 (pbk.)

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