Jurisprudence: Student Edition - Softcover

Lasswell Harold D. Lasswell

9789041106117: Jurisprudence: Student Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9041106111 ISBN 13: 9789041106117

Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff, 1997

The pioneering work of Lasswell and McDougal on law and policy is already legendary. Most of the work produced by these scholars, together and in collaboration with their students, represent applications of their basic theory to a wide assortment of international and national legal and policy problems. This work brings together their legal philosophy. In Part 1 the authors develop their fundamental criteria for a theory about law, including the requirements of clarifying observational standpoint, focus of inquiry and the pertinent intellectual tasks incumbent on the scholar and decision-maker for determining and achieving common interests. Trends in theories about law, including natural law, the historical school, positivism, the sociological study of law, American legal realism and other contemporary theories, are explored for what they might contribute to the achievement to the authors' conception of an adequate jurisprudence. In Part 2, the social process as a whole and the particul

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