The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory 1st Edition by Martin Golding, William Edmundson 9780631228325 0631228322

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ISBN 10: 0631228322

ISBN 13: 9780631228325

Author: Martin P. Golding, William A. Edmundson

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory.

• Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today, written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers and legal theorists
• Each essay incorporates essential background material on the history and logic of the topic, as well as advancing the arguments
• Represents a wide variety of perspectives on current legal theory

Table of contents:

Part I Contending Schools of Thought

1 Natural Law Theory

2 Legal Positivism

3 American Legal Realism

4 Economic Rationality in the Analysis of Legal Rules and Institutions

5 Critical Legal Theory

6 Four Themes in Feminist Legal Theory:Difference,Dominance, Domesticity,and Denial

Part II Doctrinal Domains and their Philosophical Foundations

7 Criminal Law Theory

8 Philosophy of Tort Law

9 Contract Theory

10 The Commons and the Anticommons in the Law and Theory of Property

11 Legal Evidence

Part III Perennial Topics

12 Legal and Moral Obligation

13 Theories of Rights

14 A Contractarian Approach to Punishment

15 Responsibility

16 Legislation

17 Constitutionalism

18 Adjudication and Legal Reasoning

19 Privacy

Part IV Continental Perspectives

20 Continental Perspectives on Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism

21 Some Contemporary Trends in Continental Philosophy of Law

Part V Methodological Concerns

22 Objectivity

23 Can There Be a Theory of Law?

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