Jurisprudence Essentials

Law students traditionally find the methods of jurisprudence – which range across philosophical and sociological approaches to law – more difficult than ‘black-letter’ law subjects. With few cases, confusing questions and no correct answers, it can be difficult to draw a balanced view. Now, Duncan Spiers explains the main ideas of jurisprudence in the order that law students usually encounter them on their courses. By extracting the main arguments that lie at the heart of the different posi...