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Law in Context: Enlarging a Discipline
By William Twining
380 pages
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- Clarendon Press
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- Oxford
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- 1997
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Synopsis
The central theme of Twining's book is that law is a marvellous subject of study, but to do justice to its potential requires an enlargement of vision, multiple perspectives, and a radical reappraisal of the role, culture, and practices of law schools. Treating theory, education, scholarship, publishing, and professional practice as complementary activities, the author explores the history, philosophy, and practical problems of attempts to broaden the study of law in a disciplined way. He draws ...
The central theme of Twining's book is that law is a marvellous subject of study, but to do justice to its potential requires an enlargement of vision, multiple perspectives, and a radical reappraisal of the role, culture, and practices of law schools. Treating theory, education, scholarship, publishing, and professional practice as complementary activities, the author explores the history, philosophy, and practical problems of attempts to broaden the study of law in a disciplined way. He draws upon his personal experience of law schools throughout the common law world and his special knowledge of jurisprudence, evidence,torts and legal method to examine a wide range of topics in depth. These include, for example, the nature and tasks of legal theory, different kinds of legal literature, and access to legal education and the profession. This provocative and readable book will appeal to all those with an interest in the roles of legal theory, law schools, and lawyers in a changing world.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Acknowledgements vi
- Contents vii
- Abbreviations viii
- 1 - Introduction: Wandering Jurist 1
- 2 - The Camel in the Zoo 26
- 3 - Reflections on 'Law in Context'✻ 36
- I. INTRODUCTION 36
- 4 - Pericles and the Plumber 63
- 5 - Taking Facts Seriously 89
- 7 - Theory in the Law Curriculum (with Neil Maccormick) 131
- INTRODUCTION 132
- 8 - General and Particular Jurisprudence: Three Chapters in a Story 149
- 9 - Legal Skills and Legal Education 180
- 10 - Karl Llewellyn and the Modern Skills Movement 192
- 11 - Reading Law 198
- Title Page iii
- Acknowledgements vi
- Contents vii
- Abbreviations viii
- 1 - Introduction: Wandering Jurist 1
- 2 - The Camel in the Zoo 26
- 3 - Reflections on 'Law in Context'✻ 36
- I. INTRODUCTION 36
- 4 - Pericles and the Plumber 63
- 5 - Taking Facts Seriously 89
- 7 - Theory in the Law Curriculum (with Neil Maccormick) 131
- INTRODUCTION 132
- 8 - General and Particular Jurisprudence: Three Chapters in a Story 149
- 9 - Legal Skills and Legal Education 180
- 10 - Karl Llewellyn and the Modern Skills Movement 192
- 11 - Reading Law 198
- 13 - Access to Legal Education and the Legal Profession: A Commonwealth Perspective 237
- INTRODUCTION 237
- CONCLUSION 277
- 14 - Preparing Lawyers for the Twenty-First Century 280
- 15 - What Are Law Schools For? 292
- INTRODUCTION 292
- 16 - Pericles Regained? 312
- CONCLUSION 337
- 17 - A Nobel Prize for Law? 339
- Index 355