Law's Quandary

by Steven D. Smith

Book Overview

This lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudential thought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaise that currently afflicts not only legal theory but law in general. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabulary and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontological commitments that were explicitly articulated by thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even by Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of sync with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674025733
• ISBN13: 9780674025738
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"