Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, grade: B+, , course: Jurisprudence, language: English, abstract: Jurisprudence is thus the study and theory of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists (including legal philosophers and social theorists of law), try to assign a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions. In this paper, we are concentrating on the major and most important schools of jurisprudence. These schools are 1. analytical, 2. sociological, 3. historical, 4. philosophical and 5. realist schools.