An Introduction / [electronic resource] West, Robin creator author. text enk 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence – natural law, legal positivism and critical legal studies – that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for just such normative scholarship. Over the last fifty years or so, all of these traditions, although for different reasons, have taken a number of different turns – toward empirical analysis, conceptual analysis or Foucaultian critique – and away from straightforward normative criticism. As a result, normative legal scholarship – scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform – is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought. The book criticizes those developments and suggests a return, albeit with different and in many ways larger challenges, to this traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship. Robin West. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Jurisprudence K230.W475 A36 2011 340 9781139043922 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139043922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139043922 UkCbUP 110302 20180107143415.0 CR9781139043922