1st Edition

Leading Works in Philosophy of Law

Edited By Thom Brooks Copyright 2027
186 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an innovative and engaging way of reassessing the landmark contributions to scholarship and their potential for future development by focusing on the ‘Leading Works’ of this important discipline. It is a collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a ‘leading work’, a publication which has for them shed... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction
Thom Brooks

Chapter 2: H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law
Thom Brooks

Chapter 3: Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire
Julie Dickson

Chapter 4: Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law
Michael Sevel

Chapter 5: Wesley Hohfeld, Fundamental Legal Conceptions
Matthew H. Kramer

Chapter 6: Alf Ross, On Law and Justice
Matthew X. Etchemendy

Chapter 7: Immanuel Kant, Doctrine of Right
George Pavlakos

Chapter 8: Robert Alexy, The Argument from Injustice
Julian Rivers

Chapter 9: Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Kimberley Brownlee and Michelle Madden Dempsey

Biography

Thom Brooks is Professor of Law, Ethics & Government in Durham Law School and Principal of Collingwood College, Durham University, UK.