William Twining

Jurist in Context (eBook, PDF)

A Memoir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings over sixty years in the context of three continents and addresses the complexities of decolonisation, the troubles in Belfast, the contextual turn in legal studies, rethinking evidence and the implications of globalisation which have been central to his life and research. In propounding his original views as an enthusiastic self-styled 'legal nationalist', Twining maps his ideas of law as a unique discipline, which pervades all spheres of social and political life while combining theory and practice, concepts and values, facts and rules in uniquely fascinating ways. Addressed to academic lawyers generally and to other non-specialists, this story brings out the importance and fascinations of a discipline that has changed, expanded and diversified in the post-War years, with an eye to its future development and potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108576079
• Artikelnr.: 56524061

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.