Product Description

This new edition of Jursiprudence brings the book fully up to date and incorporates the following new topics: Utilitarianism, Scandinavian realism, Feminism, Liberalism, the New Critics, and the Hart v Dworkin debate. It also includes a separate chapter on Dworkin's Law's Empire, and the previous chapter on Rights has been substantially revised, to make this a useful and highly readable addition to the student's library.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196860 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
J. G. Riddall MA (TCD) of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law, formerl Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds

Customer Reviews

Jurisprudence made understandable
An excellent book, with chapters on all the main theorists in the history of legal theory. Jurisprudence is made understandable, without much of the long-windedness of other jurisprudence textbooks. If you have difficulty understanding the basic concepts of jurisprudence and find other textbooks hard to comprehend, this is certainly the book for you.

Absoultely Brilliant
I used this book last year. It was an absoutlely great introduction to Jurisprudence. We were told to read Hart's Concept, and Austin's lectures before we even started term. This is stupid. A book like this is a must have before you start reading into depth on the subject. I remember last year how annoyed I was at myself for not understanding Hart. Then I picked up this book and literally one morning read hundreds of pages non stop.

The book made me love jurisprudence, now i'm doing it for my dissertation. I'm actually writing this review because I came back to the book because I had little knowledge of Critical Legal Studies and once again I was actually entertained by reading it.

The author does a great job of writing the book as a novel, mostly with fictional dialogue and often lots of humour and solid political conclusions about many thinkers.

Unfortuntely one of the big topics: Marxism isn't covered, a shame really. Perhaps in future additions.

Good introductory reading
This book is a good precursor to studying the heavier jurisprudence texts that are available. It will therefore also be good for revision purposes, and I would recommend it.