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Jurisprudence / Suri Ratnapala.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017Edition: 3rd edDescription: x, 461 p.: 24 cm illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781316621172 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 340 RAT 1
LOC classification:
  • K230.R378 A35 2017
Contents:
Law as it is -- Law and morality -- Social dimensions of law -- Rights and justice.
Summary: The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas, the author deepens students' understanding of the perennial debates about the nature and function of law and its relation to justice. Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics, Suri Ratnapala's Jurisprudence remains an essential text for students and researchers of jurisprudence and legal theory.-- Provided by PublisherOther editions: Revision of:: Ratnapala, Suri, 1947- . Jurisprudence.
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Suri Ratnapala is affiliated with University of Queensland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-447) and index.

Law as it is -- Law and morality -- Social dimensions of law -- Rights and justice.

The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence within the history of ideas, the author deepens students' understanding of the perennial debates about the nature and function of law and its relation to justice. Fully revised and updated, with new materials on all topics, Suri Ratnapala's Jurisprudence remains an essential text for students and researchers of jurisprudence and legal theory.-- Provided by Publisher

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