General jurisprudence is the theory of law in general, identifying features that law has wherever and whenever legal institutions exist. But it is no hermetic inquiry. Law depends on, and has consequences for, politics and morality. In The Germ of Justice, one of the subject's prominent exponents disentangles these relationships. Professor Leslie Green probes three clusters of problems: the nature of law as a social construction, the relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects. Along the way, Green asks what jurisprudence can learn from the social sciences, how it is related to the humanities, how it might make progress, and why it is of value. This wonderful and accessible text engages leading theories of law and key works of Hume, Kelsen, Hart, Dworkin, Finnis, and Raz. The Germ of Justice is a must-have work in contemporary jurisprudence and a powerful contribution to political theory and moral philosophy.

The Germ of Justice: Essays in General Jurisprudence

Green, Leslie

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford University Press

Arguing that only the consent of the governed can justify authority, this monograph investigates the nature of authority and the character of the state, evaluates the modern state's claim to authority over its citizens, and assesses the theories of conventionalism, contractarianism, and communitarianism.

The Authority of the State (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press, USA

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law is a forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal law to evidence to international law), the history of legal philosophy, and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory. OSPL will be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historians of law who wish to keep up with the latest developments in this flourishing field.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 5

Politics & Social Sciences

Leiter, Brian

Philosophy

The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century. It is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. Known as Hart's most famous work, The Concept of Law emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952 in which he developed a sophisticated view of legal positivism. Hart revolutionized the methods of jurisprudence and the philosophy of law in the English-speaking world by bringing the tools of analytic, and especially linguistic, philosophy to bear on the central problems of legal theory. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social and political philosophy, clarifying misunderstandings of Hart's project and highlighting central tensions and problems in the work. The Concept of Law remains a must-read for anyone interested in the great thinkers of the 20th century.

Hart, HLA

Legal Education

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I Have Diabetes. Now What? (Teen Life 411)

Teen & Young Adult

Kelly, Pat

Personal Health

Rosen Young Adult

People don't believe children can hear from inside the womb. When we come into this world we come to believe that it is going to be the most astounding place we could possible enter into. with all the adversaries, trials, tragedies and sexual immoralities, I came close to losing my mind. With all that being said, I had to weed out the riffraff, to get to the marvelous, magnificent and most enlightening spiritual journey of my life.

Weeding Out The RiffRaff: In pursuit of my spiritual journey

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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