Thinking about Law: Perspectives on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law

ISBN-13: 9780367719951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 268 str.

Rosemary Hunter; Richard Ingleby; Richard Johnstone

Opis

An introduction to a range of different approaches to the study of law.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Tables and figures

Contributors

Introduction - Rosemary Hunter, Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone

PART ONE

1 Law and history in black and white - Penelope Mathew, Rosemary Hunter and Hilary Charlesworth

PART TWO

2 Themes in liberal legal and constitutional theory - David Wood, Rosemary Hunter and Richard Ingleby

3 Economic and sociological approaches to law - Richard Johnstone

4 Objecting to objectivity: the radical challenge to legal liberalism - Gerry J. Simpson and Hilary Charlesworth

PART THREE

5 Explaining law reform - Rosemary Hunter and Richard Johnstone

6 Invocation and enforcement of legal rules - Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone

7 Judicial decision making - Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

All three editors teach in the Law School at the University of Melbourne. ROSEMARY HUNTER is the author of Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace (1992); RICHARD INGLEBY is a Senior Associate with Gadens Ridgeway and the author of Family Law and Society (1993); and RICHARD JOHNSTONE is co-author with M. Le Brun of The Quiet (R)evolution (1994).