Contents
Chapter 1 - A Legal System and its Orderings
1. Unity and Disunity in the Legal Process
2. Legal Discourse and Prescription : The Semantic Frame
3. Nature and Limits of Logical Inquires concerning Law
Chapter 2 - Austin’s “General Jurisprudence”
Chapter 3 - Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law
1. Intellectual Basis and Scope of the “Pure” Theory of Law
2. Principles Doctrines of the “Pure” Theory of Law
3. Limitations of the Pure Theory of Law
Chapter 4 - Hohfeld’s Fundamental Legal Conceptions
Chapter 5 - Conceptual Boundaries and Structure of Legal Orders
1. The Definition of Law
2. The Structure of a Legal Order
Chapter 6 - Logic and Growth in Law
1. Logic and Growth in the Common Law
2. Logic and Growth under a Code
3. Logic and Growth in the uncodified Roman Law
4. Social Change and Legal Categories of Illusory Reference: The English
Judicial Achievement
Chapter 7 - Categories of Illusory Reference in the Growth of the Common Law
1. Social Change and the Common Law Tradition
2. Main Type of Categories of Illusory Reference
3. Uses and Abuses of Logic in Modern Case Law
Chapter 8 - Reasons and Reasoning in Judicial and Juristic Argument
Project – Notes
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Bibliographical Index
Index of Names
General Index