
Legal Theories: Contexts and Practices Second Edition - Book
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Date: 24/07/2014 Code: 9780455231051 Thomson Reuters, AUSTRALIA |
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Description
Legal Theories: Contexts and Practices presents legal theory as a living and evolving entity. The reader is brought into its story as an active participant who is challenged to think about where they sit within the history and traditions of legal theory and jurisprudence. This second edition explores how lawyers and the courts adopt theoretical and jurisprudential positions and how they are influenced by the historical, social, cultural, and legal conditions characteristic of the time in which they live. It considers how legal theories, too, are influenced by those conditions, and how these combined forces influence and continue to affect contemporary legal thinking and legal interpretation.
Notable in the new edition:
• the addition of two chapters: Legal Theory in the Age of Google considers the challenges to existing jurisprudential assumptions wrought by new technologies; and, Historicising Legal Theory examines what happens to legal thinking when assumed non-legal knowledge is lost.
Table of Contents
Legal Theory in the Age of Google
Unlocking Legal Theory
Keeping Legal Theory in Mind
The Practices of Legal Theory
Historicising Legal Theory
Community and Conscience
Modern Natural Law: Speaking to the Sky or Looking in Ourselves
Modernism and the Scientific Method: Law’s Search for Certainty and the Shift of Modernism
Liberalism: Explaining Why We Think as We Do
Correcting Irrationality: Positivism and Law’s Commonsense
Doing Common Sense: Positivism in Action
Marx and Law: Breaking Down the System
Law Meets Society
Reconceptualising the Practical: Postmodernism
Feminist Legal Theory
Critical Legal Theories
Critical Race Theory and Postcolonialism
Just in Case I: A jurisprudential anatomy of Evans v NSW
Just in Case II: More jurisprudential anatomies of case law
Concluding, Only to Begin All Over Again