Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements and attributions......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
The themes......Page 16
How to use this book......Page 17
PART I: LAW AND MODERNITY......Page 20
I. THE ADVENT OF MODERNITY......Page 22
1 Overview......Page 24
The idea of progress......Page 25
Specialisation of knowledge and the individual......Page 26
Thinking about modern law......Page 28
The emergence of the sovereign state – Westphalia as marker of transition......Page 30
Hobbes, theorist of the modern state......Page 32
John Locke: social contract and the law of private property......Page 37
Rousseau: law between equality and self-government......Page 41
3 Law and the rise of the market system......Page 48
The institutional dimension......Page 50
The market system......Page 52
Elements of the modern state......Page 58
Sovereignty......Page 60
Holding sovereign power to account......Page 64
II. THEORISTS AND CRITICS OF MODERNITY......Page 74
5 Law, class and conflict......Page 76
The function of law......Page 79
Ideology......Page 80
Max Weber: modernity and formal legal rationality......Page 84
Forms of political authority......Page 86
Forms of legal rationality......Page 87
The development of legal modernity......Page 90
Modern law and the economic system......Page 92
Weber as theorist and as critic of modernity......Page 94
7 Law, community and social solidarity......Page 96
III. TRANSFORMATIONS OF MODERN LAW......Page 102
The materialisation of modern law......Page 104
Law in the welfare state......Page 106
Beyond the welfare state......Page 110
9 Law and globalisation......Page 113
Sovereignty after globalisation......Page 116
Constitutionalism beyond the state......Page 118
‘Unthinking’ modern law......Page 120
GENERAL PART I TUTORIALS......Page 124
Tutorial 1 Sovereignty......Page 125
Tutorial 2 Social contract......Page 126
Tutorial 3 Law and general will: Rousseau’s social contract......Page 127
Tutorial 4 Property rights: justification and limits......Page 128
Tutorial 5 Property rights......Page 130
Tutorial 6 Understanding legal modernity......Page 131
Tutorial 7 Globalisation and regulation......Page 134
Tutorial 8 The structure of rights......Page 136
PART II: LEGAL SYSTEM AND LEGAL REASONING......Page 142
I. LEGALITY AND VALIDITY......Page 144
10 The differentiation of law and morality......Page 146
Hart’s concept of law......Page 150
Kelsen’s ‘pure’ theory of law......Page 153
The question of form......Page 157
The question of content......Page 164
II. THEORIES OF LEGAL REASONING......Page 174
Introduction......Page 176
The promise of formalism......Page 180
The challenge of American legal realism......Page 186
Hart and the ‘open texture’ of legal language......Page 195
MacCormick and the limits of discretion......Page 197
Dworkin, justification and integrity......Page 201
Critical legal theory......Page 206
The U.S. critical legal studies movement......Page 207
Feminist critiques of adjudication......Page 211
GENERAL PART II TUTORIALS......Page 218
Tutorial 1 Legality and the rule of law......Page 219
Tutorial 2 Law, power and the rule of law......Page 220
Tutorial 3 Identifying valid law: legal positivism......Page 221
Tutorial 4 Identifying valid law: natural law......Page 222
Tutorial 5 Law and morality......Page 223
Tutorial 6 Interpreting or making the law? [1]......Page 224
Tutorial 7 Interpreting or making the law? [2]......Page 228
Tutorial 8 Discrimination and legal reasoning......Page 232
Tutorial 9 Legal reasoning and the scope of interpretation: Hart and Dworkin......Page 233
Tutorial 10 Essay questions on legal reasoning......Page 234
PART III: ADVANCED TOPICS......Page 240
1 Theories of justice......Page 242
Utilitarianism versus libertarianism......Page 243
Liberalism: Rawls’s justice as fairness......Page 247
Socialism......Page 250
Content and scope of justice......Page 257
The conservative view......Page 259
The progressive view......Page 260
The way forward......Page 261
The rule of law in political transitions......Page 264
Addressing colonialism: judging in an unjust society......Page 270
The legacy of fact-scepticism......Page 278
Trials and perceptions of fact: language and narrative in the courtroom......Page 281
Trials, regulation and justice......Page 283
5 Displacing the juridical: Foucault on power and discipline......Page 287
Discipline......Page 288
Biopower......Page 290
Governmentality......Page 291
A theory of legal modernity?......Page 292
6 Legal pluralism......Page 295
Classical and contemporary legal pluralism......Page 296
Strong and weak legal pluralism, and the position of the state......Page 297
Empirical, conceptual and political approaches to legal pluralism......Page 299
Future directions in legal pluralism......Page 300
7 Legal institutionalism......Page 303
8 Law and deconstruction......Page 312
The meaning and scope of juridification......Page 325
Habermas on juridification......Page 326
Juridification and the ‘regulatory trilemma’......Page 328
Juridification as depoliticisation......Page 330
A fifth epoch?......Page 331
The concept of autopoiesis......Page 334
An inventory of concepts......Page 335
The coding of social systems......Page 337
Society, sub-systems and the law......Page 338
How does ‘the law think’?......Page 340
Index......Page 346