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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gerald J. Postema (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of North Carolina)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.850kg ISBN: 9780198793052ISBN 10: 0198793057 Pages: 564 Publication Date: 30 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Law, Custom, and Reason 1: Elements of Classical Common Law Theory 2: Law, Social Union, and Collective Rationality 3: Hume's Jurisprudence: Law, Justice, and Human Nature 4: Hume's Jurisprudence: Common Law Conventionalism Part II Bentham's Critique of Common Law: The Roots of Positivism 5: Utilitarian Justice and the Tasks of Law 6: Bentham as a Common Law Revisionist 7: Custom, Rules, and Sovereignty 8: Plucking Off the Mask of Mystery 9: Utilitarian Positivism Part III: Law, Utility, and Adjudication 10: The Judge as Paterfamilias 11: Judicial Virtues and the Sanctions of Public Opinion 12: Utilitarian Adjudication within the Shadow of the Code 13: The Coherence of Bentham's Theory of LawReviewsScholars have much to thank Professor Postema for, in mapping out so clearly the relationship between Bentham's thoughts on substantive law and procedure, and for placing it so firmly in the context of eighteenth century common law thought. It is rare to find a book which changes the way one thinks about great jurists: this is one such book. * The Cambridge Law Journal * Author InformationGerald J. Postema is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; a Guggenheim Fellow (2005-6); a Rockefeller Fellow, Bellagio (2001); and a Fellow of the Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies (1996-7). He has held visiting posts at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Athens, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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