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Jurist in Context

A Memoir

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvWilliam Twining

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This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings over sixty years in the context of three continents and addresses the complexities of decolonisation, the troubles in Belfast, the contextual turn in legal studies, rethinking evidence and the implications of globalisation which have been central to his life and research. In propounding his original views as an enthusiastic self-styled 'legal nationalist', Twining maps his ideas of law as a unique discipline, which pervades all spheres of social and political life while combining theory and practice, concepts and values, facts and rules in uniquely fascinating ways. Addressed to academic lawyers generally and to other non-specialists, this story brings out the importance and fascinations of a discipline that has changed, expanded and diversified in the post-War years, with an eye to its future development and potential.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-02-14
Mått180 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt880 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw in Context
Antal sidor404
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108480970

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William Twining is Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence of University College London and an established and eminent figure in the field of legal theory. He is widely published with Cambridge University Press and has been a co-editor of the Law in Context series since its inception in 1965. Other recent publications include Rethinking Evidence (Cambridge, 2006), Human Rights, Southern Voices (Cambridge, 2009), General Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2009) How to Do Things with Rules (with David Miers, Cambridge, 2010) and Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2012).

1. Jurisprudence: a personal view; 2. Childhood and schooling (1934–52); 3. Oxford and after (1952–57); 4. University of Chicago I (1957–58); 5. Khartoum (1958–61); 6. Dar-es-Salaam (1961–65); 7. Llewellyn again: American interludes (Chicago 1963–64; Yale 1965; Philadelphia 1971); 8. The Queen's University Belfast (1966–72); 9. Normative jurisprudence; 10. Standpoint, questioning, and 'thinking like a lawyer'; 11. Social and legal rules; 12. Warwick (1972–82); 13. Jurisprudence, law in context, realism, doctrine; 14. Rethinking evidence; 15. Bentham's College (1983–99); 16. Four contrasting relationships (Bentham, Dworkin, MacCormick, Anderson); 17. Legal education; 18. Globalisation and law; 19. General jurisprudence; 20. Retirement; Notes on the images; Endnotes.

'William Twining has for more than half a century made important contributions to the study of evidence and proof, legal realism, legal reasoning, legal history, and legal sociology, but this book is far more than a memoir. It is an imaginative use of all of these fields, and more, to offer an integrative guide to thinking about what law is and what law does in the extraordinarily diverse array of contexts in which law exists.' Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia