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Law as a Leap of Faith
John Gardner
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Description for Law as a Leap of Faith
In a series of essays John Gardner has developed distinctive and engaging answers to the central questions of legal philosophy, cutting through the technicalities of the subject to clarify and reinvigorate the main arguments about the nature of law. This volume collects that work to provide a major contribution to the literature on jurisprudence. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there a special kind of 'legal justice'? Does it consist simply in applying the law of the system? And how does it relate to the ideal of 'the rule ... Read more
How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there a special kind of 'legal justice'? Does it consist simply in applying the law of the system? And how does it relate to the ideal of 'the rule ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199695553
SKU
V9780199695553
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About John Gardner
John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at Columbia, Princeton, Yale, the Australian National University, and the Universities of London, Texas, and Auckland. Called to the English Bar in 1988, he has been a Bencher of the Inner Temple since 2002.
Reviews for Law as a Leap of Faith
Every essay in this collection contains many interesting and important claims, insights, and speculations, if not 'about law', then about legal theory.
Brian H. Bix, The Cambridge Law Jounral
These essays of Gardner are some of the most interesting and challenging contributions to the debate about the nature of law in recent years.
Kevin Toh, Notre Dame ... Read more
Brian H. Bix, The Cambridge Law Jounral
These essays of Gardner are some of the most interesting and challenging contributions to the debate about the nature of law in recent years.
Kevin Toh, Notre Dame ... Read more