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One of the first volumes in the new series of prestigious <em>Oxford Handbooks, <em>The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-seven of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state of the art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author presents an account of the contending views and scholarly debates animating their field of enquiry as well as setting the agenda for further study. This landmark publication will be essential reading for anyone working in legal theory and of interest to legal scholars generally, philosophers and legal theorists looking for a way in to understand current jurisprudential thinking.
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[UNTITLED] Oxford Handbooks Online The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law Edited by Jules L. Coleman, Kenneth Einar Himma, and Scott J. Shapiro Print Publication Date: Jan 2004 Subject: Law Online Publication Date: Sep 2012 (p. iv) Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Oxford University Press 2002 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2002 Published new as paperback 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Page 1 of 2 [UNTITLED] Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN-13: 978–0–19–927097–2 (pbk) ISBN-10: 0–19–927097–X (pbk) 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 Typeset by Hope Services (Abingdon) Ltd Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King's Lynn, Norfolk Preface Oxford Handbooks Online Preface The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law Edited by Jules L. Coleman, Kenneth Einar Himma, and Scott J. Shapiro Print Publication Date: Jan 2004 Subject: Law Online Publication Date: Sep 2012 Preface Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and companions are all the rage in philosophical publishing these days, and the philosophy of law certainly has its share. It was not our intention to add to the growing list of titles. Rather, we wanted to put together a volume of work on the main topics in the philosophy of law that not only reported on the state of the art, but contributed to it as well. We provided the authors with very simple instructions: give us your ‘take’ on the chosen topic. Ideally we wanted the chapters to canvass some of the major issues in the field and some of the prominent approaches to such issues. But we also wanted these surveys to serve as points of departure for the authors' own views. We realized that to complete such assignments, the authors would need significantly more freedom and space than encyclopedia entries