Patterns of American Jurisprudence

ISBN-13: 9780198258506 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 536 str.

Neil Duxbury

Opis

This unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century to the present day. The author argues that it is a mistake to view American jurisprudence as a collection of movements and schools which have emerged in opposition to each other. By offering a highly original analysis of legal formalism, legal realism, policy science, process jurisprudence, law and economics, and critical legal studies, he demonstrates that American jurisprudence has evolved as a collection of themes which reflect broader American intellectual and cultural concerns.

Recenzje

'Neil Duxbury tells a good story. In fact, for anyone interested in the personalities - some of them definitely larger than life - who have populated American jurisprudence since the mid-nineteenth century there is much to attract the reader here...The author's enthusiasm for his subject shinres through the text and the book is a rich tapestry of narratives of jurisprudential ideas, attitudes, aspirations, and projects...It is also a work of remarkable scholarship, meticulously documentated with an immense array of citations to relevant publications. This alone makes it an invaluable reference source on the subjects it discusses...this excellent book describes a closed-off world. Its relative isolation should be a cause for regret for all who admire the ambition of the projects described in these pages.'