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Mapping Legal Theory, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Mapping Legal Theory, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In this essay, the author briefly outlines recent trends in Canadian jurisprudence. Beginning with a brief overview of the classical jurisprudential debate between natural lawyers, legal positivists, and legal realists, the author then provides an introduction to a new theoretical tradition which he terms "Artifactualism", as well as a survey of contemporary ''Artifactualist Jurisprudence". He argues that there has been a significant theoretical shift away from the classical conceptualization of law as morality (as embodied in natural law, and challenged by legal posltlvism and legal realism), toward the conceptualization of law as politics (as promulgated by artifactualism). This new conceptualization …
The Word On Trial, Robin West
The Word On Trial, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Milner Ball's extraordinary book, The Word and the Law, begins with a narrative account of "seven practices in law." The seven practitioners Ball brings to life for the reader share two powerful traits: they all, in quite different ways, use law to lessen the multiple sufferings of various communities of poor people, and they all, by doing so, strengthen the communities within which and for which they labor. The reader gains from these accounts not only a sympathetic understanding of the lives of seven lawyers, but a renewed sense of the possibilities their practices present. This can be put any …