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Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics
2006Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murphy argues that the central thesis of natural law jurisprudence - that law is backed by decisive reasons for compliance - sets the agenda for natural law political philosophy, demonstrating how law ...
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Political and Economic Interpretations of Jurisprudence
Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1912Leaving out of account the eighteenth century natural-law thinking which still persists in some quarters, we may say that until recently Anglo-American jurists stood for a political interpretation of jurisprudence. English jurists maintain that position today. But the present fashion in America seems to be an economic interpretation.
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Public Law as Political Jurisprudence
2018The main theme of this chapter is to suggest that the nature of public law is best explained by examining the conditions of its formation. This type of exercise reveals that public law is a modern concept which is formed by reworking the medieval idea of natural law in the context of the emergence of the modern idea of the sovereign state.
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Feminist Jurisprudence and Political Vision
Law & Social Inquiry, 1999In The Once and Future King, Merlin lives backwards in time and, thus, having experienced the future, is able to predict the future. If feminist legal scholars and activists had the hindsight and foresight of a wizard or Patricia Williams's "potent black witchcraft" (1992, 165),1 they would be able to fully comprehend the past and prepare for the ...
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Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence
2013Understandings of law and politics are intrinsically bound up with broader visions of the human condition. Sean Coyle argues for a renewed engagement with the juridical and political philosophies of the Western intellectual tradition, and takes up questions pondered by Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas and Hobbes in seeking a deeper understanding of
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The Political Jurisprudence of Thomas Hobbes
2018What is the significance of Thomas Hobbes’ contribution to jurisprudence? Although often treated as a founder of the dominant modern school of legal positivism, positivists remain embarrassed by the prominence he gives to natural law. This chapter maintains that rather than arguing about whether he is a natural lawyer or a legal positivist, scholars ...
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