Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely
recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth …

Two fish are swimming in a pond.'Do you know what?'the fish asks his friend.'No, tell me.''I
was talking to a frog the other day. And he told me that we are surrounded by water!'His …

Page 1 OXFORD SIXTH EDITION UNDERSTANDING JURISPRUDENCE An Introduction to
Legal Theory RAYMOND WACKS Page 2 UNDERSTANDING JURISPRUDENCE Page 3 …

IS law a limited domain? Are legal argument and judicial deci-sionmaking constrained by
norms of decision that make considerations of morality, policy, and politics that would …

Pluralisme hukum bukanlah konsep baru yang muncul dalam sistem hukum modern,
melainkan sebuah pendekatan menganalisa bekerjanya berbagai sistem hukum secara …

The doctrine of sources has served international law well over the past century, providing
structure and coherence during a time when international law was expanding rapidly and …

Transsystemic legal teaching is a challenge to the western bias against conceiving of law as
anything other than that which is positively enacted by the state. Recent critiques of legal …

When contemporary legal theorists engage the question" What is law?" their analyses
typically are framed in terms of a grand contest between legal positivism and natural law. In …

A minimal, reasonably uncontroversial, demand of a legal system is that it should stabilize a
polity against the chance hazards of ordinary violence and soften the blows of extraordinary …

This book brings together the fruits of different traditions in legal philosophy and draws on
them to develop a systematic thesis on the concept of law. The work uses a legal model to …