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Schools Of Jurisprudence, Robert Rodes

Robert Rodes

Professor Rodes defines Jurisprudence as ''the legal profession's account of what it is about.'' Since they lawyers, judges, and legislators doing their work are all looking at the same phenomenon, writers on Jurisprudence must all draw from the same limited body of material in constructing their theories. In this book, Rodes examines these materials and then classifies the various schools of Jurisprudence according to which of the materials they use and how they use them. In describing the available materials, Rodes looks first at what he calls the ''internal account'': legal work considered in itself, the definition and scope of …

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Classic Problems Of Jurisprudence, Robert Rodes

Robert Rodes

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Jurisprudence: Cases And Materials, Thomas Broden, Robert Rodes

Robert Rodes

The Second Edition of Jurisprudence Cases and Materials includes several new features. First, it begins with two chapters on the ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and classical origins of law and jurisprudence. Second, it offers chapters that trace the systematic development of the Anglo-American analytic canon and modern critical responses. Continental thought is incorporated along with the realist and pragmatic traditions that remain among the major American contributions to jurisprudential thought. Third, the Second Edition retains and further develops analysis of jurisprudence in the courts. The result, we think, is a book that attains unusual breadth and richness of treatment of …

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