Law, philosophy of, major branches of philosophical study. This book is a written version of lectures delivered before the law school of yale university as storrs lectures in the school year 19211922. The reach of the law the various legal theories on the nature and extent of the law s authority, with regard to obligation and civil disobedience, rights, liberty and privacy. In recent years, debates about the nature of law have. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
The command theory of law john austin, the province of jurisprudence determined 1832 1. The philosophy of law, as its name implies, normally proceeds from the standpoint of the discipline of philosophy e. A required book for any philosophy of law class in undergrad, the feinberg complication gives the reader a great introduction into the philosophic issues involved in legal theory. This book discusses some basic problems in legal philosophy, critically. Encyclopedia of the philosophy of law and social philosophy. Discover librarianselected research resources on philosophy of law from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals. Ethics and law for a collective age, cambridge university press, 2000, addressed the question of individual moral and legal responsibility for harms brought about through collective and corporate activity. The scientific ways of treating natural law, its place in moral philosophy, and its relation to the positive sciences of law works in continental philosophy g. A law is a command which obliges a person or persons, and. The book is structured in three parts around the key issues and themes in philosophy of law. Hart, the authority of law by joseph raz, natural law and natural rights by john finnis. Ideal for undergraduate courses in philosophy of law, this comprehensive anthology examines such topics as the concept of law, the dispute between natural law theorists and legal positivists, the relations between law and morality, criminal responsibility and legal punishment, the rights of the individual against the state, justice and equality, and legal evidence as compared with scientific evidence. Legal interpretivism originated with ronald dworkin in the late 20th century in his book laws empire. This encyclopedia covers all topics in the philosophy of law and social philosophy, including the history, theory, and leading theorists of the.