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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence, also known as legal theory or legal science, is the philosophy of law. As a field of knowledge, it applies philosophical methods to legal questions, such as what the law is or how it ought to be.

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Jurisprudence

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related to Encyclopedias and dictionaries · 39
Jurisprudence → Adams, Alexander, Andrei, Atiq, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, CBO9781139057509, Edward, Emad, Encyclopedia Britannica, Internet Encyclopedia, John, June, Kenneth Einar, Law, Legal Positivism, Legal Theory, Leiter, Leslie, Lewis
related to Articles · 35
Jurisprudence → American Law, Archived, Chang, Chinese Legal System, Classical Chinese Jurisprudence, Comparative Law Review, December, Development, Economics, Gelter, German Doctrinalism, Grechenig, Hastings International, ISSN, June, Kristoffel, Legal Thought, March, Martin, New York University Law
related to Further reading · 29
Jurisprudence → Beck, Carolina Academic Press, Das Wesen, Dordrecht, Durham, Enrico, General Jurisprudence, German Edition, German Legal Methods, Introduction, ISBN, Junker, Juristische Methodenlehre, Kirk, Kohlhammer, Law, Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory, Matthew Roy, Munich
related to Books · 27
Jurisprudence → Austin, Cambridge, Clarendon Press, Essays, Finnis, Hart, Harvard University Press, ISBN, John, Joseph, Jurisprudence Determined, Justice, Law, Morality, Natural Law, Natural Rights, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Philosophical, Rawls
related to Textbooks and anthologies · 19
Jurisprudence → An, An Introduction, Baker, English, Freeman, ISBN, John, Legal Theory, Lloyd's, London, Maxwell, Michael, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Raymond, Sweet, Thomson Reuters, Understanding Jurisprudence, Wacks
related to Law as custom, religion · 14
Jurisprudence → England, Friedrich Carl, German, Germany, Greece, Historically, In, India, Legislation, More, On, Our Age, Savigny, Vocation
related to history · 11
Jurisprudence → Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient India, Aristotle, BC, BCE, Because, Confucius, Contemporary, Evidence, The
related to Analytic philosophy and analytical jurisprudence · 10
Jurisprudence → By, English, Enlightenment, Grotius, Hobbes, John Austin, Legal, Leviathan, One, Within
related to Definition and scope · 9
Jurisprudence → According, English, General, In, Knowledge, Latin, Other, Oxford English Dictionary, The
related to Is-ought distinction · 6
Jurisprudence → Hume, Kant, Legal, Some, The, Theories

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law legal philosophy theory political social natural economics moral laws theories justice positivism nature international states analytical needed rules university

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Jurisprudenceis astudy of the nature of law and aims to describe law and its characteristics generally and universally0.90text
Jurisprudenceis aview that the laws should promote the development of virtuous character in citizens0.90text
Hobbesinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
Humeinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
Lockeinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
Montesquieuinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
and Rousseau rejecting religious conceptions of lawinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
developing early concepts of the rule of lawinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
justiceinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
and constitutionalism.By the twentieth centuryinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
the legal positivism of Hinstance ofwhich saw empiricist philosophers0.80text
legal validityinstance ofhave argued that an understanding of legal philosophy is relevant to legal practice as regards issues0.80text

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