The Problems of Jurisprudence
by Richard A. Posner
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In this book, one of our country's most distinguished scholar-judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past two thousand years, the philosophy of law has been dominated by two rival doctrines. One contends that law is more than politics and yields, in the hands of skillful judges, correct answers to even the most difficult legal questions; the other contends that law is politics through and through and that judges wield essentially arbitrary powers. Rejecting these doctrines as too metaphysical in the first instance and too nihilistic in the second, Richard Posner argues for a pragmatic jurisprudence, one that eschews formalism in favor of the factual and the empirical. Laws, he argues, are not abstract, sacred entities, but socially determined goads for shaping behavior to conform with society's values.
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- The Problems of Jurisprudence
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- Richard A. Posner
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0674708768
- ISBN 13
- 9780674708761
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- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- This edition first published
- March 7, 2007
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