Acknowledgements
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Part 1: What is the Law?
1. Natural Justice and Natural Law
2. English Common Law
3. The Rise of Legal Positivism
4. Mid-Twentieth Century Positivism: Hart and Kelsen
5. Dworkin’s Theory of Law as Integrity
6. American Legal Realism: Judge-Made Law
7. Legal Theory and Nazi Law
8. Radical Challenges to Mainstream Jurisprudence
Part 2: The Reach of the Law
9. Theories of Obligation: Why Obey the Law?
10. Rawls and Civil Disobedience
11. Liberties, Rights and Trial by Jury
12. Defences of Rights
13. Common Law and Slavery
14. Radical Critiques of Liberal Theories of Law
Part 3: Criminal Responsibility and Punishment
15. Negligence and Recklessness
16. Intentional Killing and Murder
17. The Defences of Duress and Necessity
18. Insanity and the Law
19. Theories of Punishment
20. Radical Perspectives on Crime and Punishment.
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Mark Tebbit is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, USA’s UK campus – Notre Dame London (Global Gateway) – where he has taught courses on the philosophy of law and philosophy of religion, for over twenty years. The author of numerous articles primarily on legal and religious themes, he has also worked at the University of Reading, the University of Bristol, and King’s College London.
Praise for the previous edition:
'With its uniquely detailed focus on the Common Law, this is the best textbook available for philosophy students not already familiar with law as it is practiced in the UK, US, and related systems. It will likewise be particularly valuable to law students interested in philosophising about the actual concrete legal systems which surround our lives, rather than "the law" as some abstract and contextless ideal object.' - Shane Glackin, University of Exeter, UK
