Table of Contents

1: What is jurisprudence about?
2: Natural law and moral truth
3: The command theory of law
4: Utilitarianism and the economic analysis of law
5: Punishment
6: Kelson's pure theory of law
7: Legal concepts
8: Legal realism and critical legal studies
9: Hart's concept of law
10: Freedom and the enforcement of morals
11: The morality of law and the rule of law
12: Statutory interpretation
13: Precedent
14: Dworkin's rights thesis
15: Legal reasoning
16: The duty to obey the law
17: The historical school and non-state law
18: Sociological jurisprudence
19: Law, social theory and Marxist jurisprudence
20: Justice: liberal, communitarian and feminist
Index

About the Author

The Late J.W. Harris, BCL, MA, PhD, former Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Keble College, Oxford