| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Law essentials
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Law essentials.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
From natural law to justifying punishment, and from Marxism to feminism, Duncan Spiers explains the main ideas of jurisprudence in the order that law students usually encounter them on their courses. By extracting the main arguments that lie at the heart of the different positions, he makes the central themes and implications clear. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jurisprudence -- Scotland.
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Jurisprudence. |
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Scotland. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spiers, Duncan. Jurisprudence. Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2011 9781845861094 (OCoLC)760250766 |
| ISBN |
9781474472807 (electronic book) |
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147447280X (electronic book) |
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9781845861094 |
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1845861094 |
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