The Quest for the Description of the Law

The book suggests that it is reasonable to ask why we should try to give a general description of law. It analyses the theories of Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. It then attempts to turn our attention away from general descriptions of the law, to the approac...

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Main Author: Edvinsson, Reidar. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Legal Positivism -- H.L.A. Hart -- Joseph Raz -- Ronald Dworkin -- Common Approaches in Reasoning -- The Modernist Approach -- Scepticism, relativism, perspectivism -- Descriptive Theory of Law -- Interpretation -- The Quest for the Description of the Law -- Appendix: The Originality and Power of the Throwing Thrown. 
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