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Perspectives On Perennial Problems Of Jurisprudence, Joseph J. Darby

San Diego Law Review

A review of E. Bodenheimer, Treatise on justice, W. Friedmann, Legal theory, 5U., and B. Wortley, Jurisprudence. To a certain degree, law is a refection of the social environment in which it exists. Since a multiplicity of forces is constantly at work to produce stresses and tensions that serve to keep society in an incessant state of flux, the law also finds itself in continual need to adjust and readjust. Traditionally, the contemplative jurist in search of aid in the solution of novel social problems has turned to philosophy. Despite the increasing popularity of the auxiliary disciplines of sociology, psychology …