1st Edition

Dialogues on Jurisprudence Bridging the Analytical-Critical Divide

Edited By Alex Green, Joshua Jowitt, Sahar Shah Copyright 2027
330 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection explores the existence and extent of the divide between analytic legal philosophy and critical legal theory. Motivated by a shared desire to bridge these traditions, the editors and contributors establish meaningful dialogue between the two, identifying key points of overlap and divergence. Discussing the genesis of analytic and critical work within jurisprudence, remarking upon... Read more

Introduction 

Part I: Establishing the Divide

 

1.     ‘Just’ Critical Jurisprudence

Kimberlee Brayson

2.     Bentham’s Children: Intellectual Lineages in Jurisprudence

Dan Priel

 

3.     Critical Natural Law

Joshua Jowitt

 

Part II: Building a Bridge

 

4.     Can the Analytic-Critical Divide in Jurisprudence be Bridged?

Joanne Conaghan

5.     Law Unromanticized: Law in a Negative Light and Experience-Sensitive

Engagement

Julie Dickson

6.     Can we Argue Fairly about Law?

Sahar Shah

 

Part III: Jurisprudence Reimagined

 

7.     A Jurisprudence for Jurists and Citizens

Roger Cotterrell

8.     Seeing Law Feelingly: Humanistic Jurisprudence, Poetic Wisdom, and the Future of Law

Lorenzo Zucca

9.     The Universal Plurality of Law

Alex Green (文浩航) and Jennifer Hendry (文林言)

 

10.  Afterward: A Bridge Too Far?

Neil Walker

Biography

Alex Green (文浩航) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Joshua Jowitt is a Senior Lecturer in Law in Newcastle Law School, at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.

Sahar Shah is a Lecturer in the University of Bristol Law School, at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.