William Twining

Jurist in Context

A Memoir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A leading English jurist reflects on the development of his thoughts and writings in legal theory over sixty years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 231mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781108480970
• ISBN-10: 1108480977
• Artikelnr.: 55234289

Autorenporträt

William Twining is Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence of University College London and an established and eminent figure in the field of legal theory. He is widely published with Cambridge University Press and has been a co-editor of the Law in Context series since its inception in 1965. Other recent publications include Rethinking Evidence (Cambridge, 2006), Human Rights, Southern Voices (Cambridge, 2009), General Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2009) How to Do Things with Rules (with David Miers, Cambridge, 2010) and Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Jurisprudence: a personal view
2. Childhood and schooling (1934-52)
3. Oxford and after (1952-57)
4. University of Chicago I (1957-58)
5. Khartoum (1958-61)
6. Dar-es-Salaam (1961-65)
7. Llewellyn again: American interludes (Chicago 1963-64
Yale 1965
Philadelphia 1971)
8. The Queen's University Belfast (1966-72)
9. Normative jurisprudence
10. Standpoint, questioning, and 'thinking like a lawyer'
11. Social and legal rules
12. Warwick (1972-82)
13. Jurisprudence, law in context, realism, doctrine
14. Rethinking evidence
15. Bentham's College (1983-99)
16. Four contrasting relationships (Bentham, Dworkin, MacCormick, Anderson)
17. Legal education
18. Globalisation and law
19. General jurisprudence
20. Retirement
Notes on the images
Endnotes.