The Tapestry of the Law - Scotland, Legal Culture and Legal Theory (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

Although its concern is jurisprudence, The Tapestry of the Law is intended to offer neither an original theory of or about law nor an account of other people's theories in textbook form. It is, rather, an attempt to approach the subject without following either of these conventions. The reasons are as follows. Those engaged in legal theory are prone to assert that one cannot properly understand the law unless one takes a jurisprudential approach - preferably their own - to it. Equally, those engaged in exposition of the law may counter that legal theory fails to pay adequate attention to actual law. There is at least some truth in these claims. Analyses, courses and textbooks on both sides do often seem to be produced without reference to the other. Yet such isolation is probably more apparent than real. Most, if not all, so-called "black letter" lawyers do operate on the basis of certain jurisprudential understandings, even if these are not articulated ones. In the frequently quoted words ofF C S Northrop: There are lawyers, judges and even law professors who tell us they have no legal philosophy.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Law and Philosophy Library, 26
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1997
Authors:	E. Attwooll
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4310-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General
LSN:	0-7923-4310-7
Barcode:	9780792343103

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