Jurisprudence as Ideology

by Valerie Kerruish

Overview

In Jurisprudence as Ideology, Valerie Kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it. She engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist and critical legal theory, and links these issues to debates in jurisprudence and the philosophy and sociology of law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415088572
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/1992
Series:	Sociology of Law and Crime
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maureen Cain University of the West Indies,
Carol Smaort, Valerie Kerruish University of Warwick

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Thinking about Jurisprudence as Ideology; Chapter 2 A Realist Concept of Ideology; Chapter 3 Three Concepts of Law; Chapter 4 Tradition, Agreement and Argument in Jurisprudence; Chapter 5 The Jurisprudence Game: The Legal Construction of Objectivity; Chapter 6 Rights Fetishism; Chapter 7 Against Jurisprudence: The Exclusion of Standpoint; Chapter 8 By Way of a Conclusion: Standpoint Relativity and the Value of Law;