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Table of Contents: “…From `Urf' to Qanun `Urfi': The Legal Positivization of Customs --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Legality and legitimacy in natural law and legal positivism --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Natural law -- Classical legal positivism -- Modern legal positivism -- Law as interpretation -- Law and morality -- Legal realism -- Law and social theory -- Justice -- Rights -- Feminist and critical race theory -- Critical legal theory.…”

Table of Contents: “…The origins of law in the ancient Near East-- The birth of jurisprudence in the ancient world -- Questions of approach -- Legal positivism -- Critics of legal positivism -- Justice -- The nature and significance of rights -- Legalism -- Critical jurisprudence : an overview of the movements -- Critical jurisprudence : a conceptual approach -- Is meaning found or imputed? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Setting the epistemological context -- The epistemology of presocratic Greek rationalism -- Plato's epistemology and his theory of ethics, government, and law -- Aristotle's epistemology and his theory of ethics, government, and law -- Natural law theory -- The decline of classical naturalism : the modernist challenge -- The rise of legal positivism -- Epistemological themes of twentieth-century natural law theory -- Epistemological themes of twentieth-century legal positivism -- Contemporary highlights of the positivist/naturalist debate -- Contemporary highlights of the debate over naturalism : controversy from within and without -- The postmodern challenge to foundationalism -- Postmodernism in the United States.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Toward normative jurisprudence -- Revitalizing natural law -- Legal positivism, censorial jurisprudence, and legal reform -- Critical legal studies : the missing years -- Conclusion : Reconstructing normative jurisprudence.…”

Table of Contents: “…Efficiency and equity -- The economist's legacy to law and economics : the natural law misconception in historical and comparative perspective -- The distinction between common law and civil law : doing away with legal positivism -- The competitive relationship among sources of law -- Legal change : the comparative law and economics perspective -- First study on comparative efficiency : private trusts -- Second study on comparative efficiency : penalty clauses -- First area study : codifying property law in post-socialist countries -- Second area study : tort law in less developed countries.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a slight adjustment -- The one and only law -- The law of the break with law : Badiou and legal ethics -- Raving with reason : Kant and the moral law -- A "useful illusion" : H.L.A. Hart and legal positivism -- The Haitian revolution : one law in action -- Conclusion : how lawful is one law?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jurisprudential schools of thought: natural law, legal positivism, and legal realism -- A constitutive theory of justice: the anatomy of music from slavery to freedom -- Living in a diamond city: critical race theory -- Chanting for recognition: critical race feminist legal theory and the performance of law -- Class matters: ghetto university -- Conclusions.…”

Table of Contents: “…Law as a leap of faith -- Legal positivism : 5 1/2 myths -- Some types of law -- Can there be a written constitution? …”

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: turning and turning: the gyres of modern law, culture, and the interiority of the civil subject -- Legal reforms, the blackmailer's charter, and Oscar Wilde's trials: the legal state of modernism -- Law's empire writes back: legal positivism and literary rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad -- High modernist challenges to legal authority in Ford and Joyce -- Conclusion: manufacturing individual identity -- Notes -- Works consulted -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; Ch 1 Introduction; Ch 2 Natural Law; Ch 3 Moral Theories and Practical Reason; Ch 4 Legal Positivism; Ch 5 American and Scandinavian Realism; Ch 6 Law and Society: Historical, Marxist, Anthropological and Sociological Theories; Ch 7 Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism and Feminism; Ch 8 Rights; Ch 9 Justice; Ch 10 The Justification of Punishment; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Legal positivism and folktale -- Sociological jurisprudence and folktale -- The significance of folklore in historical and anthropological jurisprudence -- Psychological theory of law and folktale -- Natural law theory and folktale -- Love, forgiveness and punishment in Thai folktales -- Suffering and justice in Thai folktales -- Equality, justice and law in Thai folktales -- Law and equity in Thai folktales -- The principle of reciprocity in Thai folktales -- Freedom and responsibility in Thai folktales -- Striving for virtue in Thai folktales -- Thai folktales and legal reasoning -- Moral duty and legal obligation in Thai folktales -- The concept of fraud in Thai folktales -- Abuse of judicial powers in Thai folktales -- Violence of the powerful in Thai folktales -- Oppression of the poor in Thai folktales -- Thai folk wisdom as a challenge to Thai law -- Public participation in environmental protection and Thai folk wisdom -- Unfair employment practices and Thai folk wisdom.…”

Table of Contents: “…Classical natural law theory -- Early positivism -- Central tenets of modern Hartian positivism -- Towards a "third" theory of law: Dworkin's attack on positivism -- Contemporary natural law theories -- Dworkin's third theory -- Law, morality, and conventional criteria of validity: contemporary positivism and Dworkin -- Inclusive and exclusive legal positivism -- Authority and the possibility of moral critieria of validity -- Practical guidance and the possibility of moral criteria of validity -- The problem of legal obligation -- Legal objectivity -- The methodology of conceptual analysis.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Overview, purpose and methodology -- Legal theory : general jurisprudence and conceptual anlysis -- H.L.A. Hart and legal positivism -- Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law -- Natural law theory and John Finnis -- Understanding Lon Fuller -- Ronald Dworkin's interpretive approach -- Justice -- Punishment -- Rights and rights talk -- Will and reason -- Authority, finality and mistake -- Common law reasoning and precedent -- Statutory interpretation and legislative intentions -- Legal enforcement of morality -- The obligation to obey the law -- American legal realism -- Economic analysis of law -- Modern critical perspectives -- Law and literature -- Philosophial foundations of the common law -- Other approaches.…”