On the History of the Idea of Law

Name: On the History of the Idea of Law
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ISBN: 9780521854238

ISBN-10: 0521854237

ISBN-13: 9780521854238

Edition: 2005

Authors: Shirley Robin Letwin

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On the History of the Idea of Law traces the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato's writings to today. Shirley Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes as well as confusion and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H.L.A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence.

Book details

List price: $133.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction : the idea of law



Law anchored to a cosmic order



Plato



Aristotle



Cicero



The Christian revision



St. Augustine



St. Thomas Aquinas



The modern quest



Thomas Hobbes



John Locke



Immanuel Kant



Jeremy Bentham



The significance of rules



From historical jurisprudence of realism : Savigny, Jhering, Duguit, Holmes, Gray, Frank



The defense of rules : Edward Levi, Hans Kelsen, H. L. A. Hart



The idea of law repudiated



Marxist theories



Political jurisprudence I : from realism to feminist jurisprudence



Political jurisprudence II : Ronald Dworkin



New foundations



A skeptical jurisprudence : Michael Oakeshott



Postscript : morality, individualism, and law