Bix, Brian. <br/><br/>
Jurisprudence :  theory and context / 
Brian Bix. 
 - 6th ed. 
 - Durham, N.C. :  Carolina Academic Press,  c2012. 
 - xx, 342 p. :  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-328) and index. 
<br/><br/>Overview, purpose and methodology -- Legal theory : general jurisprudence and conceptual anlysis -- H.L.A. Hart and legal positivism -- Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law -- Natural law theory and John Finnis -- Understanding Lon Fuller -- Ronald Dworkin's interpretive approach -- Justice -- Punishment -- Rights and rights talk -- Will and reason -- Authority, finality and mistake -- Common law reasoning and precedent -- Statutory interpretation and legislative intentions -- Legal enforcement of morality -- The obligation to obey the law -- American legal realism -- Economic analysis of law -- Modern critical perspectives -- Law and literature -- Philosophial foundations of the common law -- Other approaches. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781611633115 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012025898 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jurisprudence.<br/>Law--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K230  / BIX 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340/.1