Legal Theory

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CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF LEGAL THEORY GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND THE BASIC PROBLEMS OF LAW LAW, JUSTICE, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL MORALITY SCIENCE AND LEGAL THEORY LEGAL THEORY AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION THE PRINCIPAL ANTINOMIES IN LEGAL THEORY PART TWO A CRITICAL SURVEY OF LEGAL THEORIES Section One Natural Law and the Search for Absolute Values THE PROBLEM OF NATURAL LAW ANCIENT THEORIES THE MIDDLE AGES REASON AND THE LAW OF NATURE NATURAL LAW AND SOCIAL CONTRACT TWILIGHT OF NATURAL LAW IDEOLOGY NATURAL LAW THEORIES IN ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL DEVELOPMENT. REVIVAL OF NATURAL LAW THEORIES Section Two Philosophical Idealism and the Problem of Justice GERMAN TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM NEO-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC LEGAL IDEALISM MODERN VALUE PHILOSOPHIES AND THE LAW Section Three The Impact of Social Development on Legal Theory HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AS A GUIDE TO LEGAL THOUGHT BIOLOGY, SOCIETY AND LEGAL EVOLUTION MODERN SOCIALOGICAL THEORIES OF LAW Section Four Positivism and Legal Theory POSITIVISM IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY ANALYTICAL LEGAL POSITIVISM POSITIVISM AND THE ANALYSIS OF LEGAL CONCEPTS KELSEN`S PURE THEORY OF LAW PRAGMATIC POSITIVISM Section Five Utilitarianism, the Jurisprudence of Interests and the New Legal Idealism LAW AND THE PURSUIT OF INTERESTS THE NEW LEGAL IDEALISM Section Six A Critique of the Search for Absolute Legal Values IDEALS OF JUSTICE PART THREE LEGAL THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS Section One Legal Theory of Modern Political Movements SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST THEORIES OF LAW NEO-SCHOLASTIC DOCTRINE AND MODERN CATHOLIC LEGAL PHILOSOPHY LEGAL VALUES OF MODERN DEMOCRACY Section Two Legal Theory, Public Policy and Legal Evolution LEGAL IDEALS AND JUDICIAL LAW-MAKING ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND CONTINENTAL APPROACHES TO LAW CORPORATE PERSONALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Section Three Legal Theory and International Society 35.STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER