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• Contents
• Preface
• Table of cases
• Introduction
• 0.1 What is jurisprudence?
• 0.2 An overview of the topics to be covered in this book
• 0.3 What is the point of studying jurisprudence?
• Chapter 1 Law and force
• 1.1 Austin’s command theory of law
• 1.2 Hart’s criticism of Austin’s notion of obligation
• 1.3 What Austin’s account leaves out
• 1.4 A new start: law as a normative phenomenon
• 1.5 Law as a union of primary and secondary rules
• 1.6 Why Hart’s account is superior to Austin’s
• 1.7 Norms and coercion in Kelsen’s theory of law
• 1.8 Kelsen’s hierarchy of norms
• 1.9 Kelsen and revolutionary political changes
• Chapter 2 Law and morality
• 2.1 Classical natural law theory
• 2.2 Natural law in the courts
• 2.3 John Finnis’s neo-Thomism
• 2.4 Lon Fuller’s internal morality of law
• 2.5 Legal positivism
• 2.6 Some misconceptions about positivism
• 2.7 Is the normativity of law compatible with legal positivism?
• 2.8 Dworkin on positivism and plain facts
• 2.9 Inclusive positivism
• 2.10 Dworkin’s objections to inclusive positivism
• 2.11 Exclusive positivism
• 2.12 Ethical positivism
• Chapter 3 Law and politics
• 3.1 The mainstream view and its opponents
• 3.2 Hart and the partial determinacy of the law
• 3.3 Fuller’s criticism of the idea that language can constrain
• 3.4 Fuller’s criticism of the idea of rigid adherence to rules
• 3.5 The formalist response
• 3.6 Dworkin’s critique of Hart
• 3.7 Dworkin’s distinction between rules and principles
• 3.8 Adjudication as an interpretive task
• 3.9 Law as integrity
• 3.10 Judging and legislating
• 3.11 Some criticisms of Dworkin
• Chapter 4 Law and politics
• 4.1 Legal indeterminacy
• 4.2 Paper rules and real rules
• 4.3 Judicial behaviour
• 4.4 The ideal judge
• 4.5 The economic analysis of law
• 4.6 Posner’s normative claim
• 4.7 Posner’s descriptive claim
• 4.8 Critical Legal Studies and its intellectual roots
• 4.9 Postmodernism
• 4.10 Marxism
• 4.11 Contradictions, incoherencies and law as ideology
• 4.12 Rejecting liberal values
• 4.13 CLS and critical race theory
• 4.14 Other criticisms of CLS
• Chapter 5 Rights
• 5.1 The concept of moral rights against the government
• 5.2 Which rights are claimed as human rights?
• 5.3 Rights as constraints on the general interest
• 5.4 The idea of human dignity
• 5.5 Are rights selfish?
• 5.6 Do rights cater only to the interests of the powerful?
• 5.7 Rights and community
• 5.8 Are rights ethnocentric?
• 5.9 Translating moral rights against the government into law
• Chapter 6 Public and private
• 6.1 Getting clear on the issue
• 6.2 A liberal approach
• 6.3 The neutral state
• 6.4 A conservative challenge
• 6.5 Some criticisms of Devlin
• 6.6 Pornography
• 6.7 Abortion
• 6.8 Euthanasia
• Chapter 7 Justice
• 7.1 Utilitarianism
• 7.2 Rawls’s principles of justice
• 7.3 The veil of ignorance
• 7.4 Contractarianism
• 7.5 Are the conditions of the original position fair?
• 7.6 Would Rawls’s principles be chosen in the original position?
• 7.7 Political Liberalism
• 7.8 Nozick’s theory of entitlements
• 7.9 The Wilt Chamberlain argument
• 7.10 The self-ownership argument
• Chapter 8 Feminist jurisprudence
• 8.1 Liberal feminism
• 8.2 The attack on liberal feminism
• 8.3 The male norm
• 8.4 Formal equality and liberalism
• 8.5 Individualism and feminism
• 8.6 Difference or cultural feminism
• 8.7 Criticisms of difference feminism
• 8.8 Radical feminism
• 8.9 Postmodern feminism
• 8.10 Postmodernism and feminist politics
• 8.11 The public– private distinction
• 8.12 Liberalism and the public– private distinction
• 8.13 Rights
• 8.14 Adjudication
• Bibliography
• Index