William Twining

Jurist in Context

A Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781108703673
• ISBN-10: 1108703674
• Artikelnr.: 55235224

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.