The Quest for the Description of the Law

• Main Author: Edvinsson, Reidar. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Law.; Philosophy of law.; Law > Philosophy.; Social sciences.; Law Theory/Law Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70502-4

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.