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Justice and Jurisprudence began with a preface and the bulk of its content was 46 chapters that condemned decisions of the United States Supreme Court such as the Civil Rights Cases, which the Brotherhood argued misinterpreted the Reconstruction Amendments. The book further maintained that the Court "ignored precedent, manipulated language to ...
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Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be.It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values; as well as the relationship between law and other fields of study, including economics, ethics, history, sociology, and political philosophy.
Lectures on Jurisprudence, also called Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms (1763) is a collection of Adam Smith's lectures, comprising notes taken from his early lectures. It contains the formative ideas behind The Wealth of Nations .
Later, he became Chichele Professor of International Law and fellow of All Souls College. [ 2 ] His prolific scholarly work, including an often-cited treatise in legal philosophy ( Elements of Jurisprudence , 1880), his co-founding and editorship of Law Quarterly Review and his service as a university judge earned him the titles of a King's ...
Jurisprudence of values or jurisprudence of principles is a school of legal philosophy. This school represents, according to some authors, a step in overcoming the contradictions of legal positivism [ note 1 ] and, for this reason, it has been considered by some authors as a post-positivism school. [ 1 ]
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, circa 1916. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (August 9, 1879 – October 21, 1918) [1] was an American jurist.He was the author of the seminal Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays (1919).