Subjects:

Legal Skills and Method, Jurisprudence

Contents:

Preface

The Nature of Legal Theory: From Laws to Law

An Overview of the Relationship between Law and Morality

The Natural Law Tradition

English Analytical Positivism

Kelsen's Hierarchy of Norms

The Revival of Natural Law: Fuller and Finnis

Policies, Principles, Rights and Interpretation: Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication

American Realism

Critical Perspectives on Law

Theories of Justice

Law and Morality

Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Is there a duty to obey a law even if it is unjust? Should the law concern itself with the activities of consenting adults in private? This fully-updated new edition of Legal Theory asks questions such as these, discusses topical issues such as animal rights, and explains some of the answers which legal theorists have given from Ancient Greece to the present day