作者:(澳)埃文·惠顿 译者:伍巧芳 伍巧芳，女，华东政法大学副教授。硕士毕业干英国伯恩茅斯大学商学院，华东政法大学经济法博士，硕十生导师。研究领域包括商务英语、金融立法和法律翻译研究等。在国家级专业核心期刊发表研究性论文十余篇，出版普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材、专著和译著各一部。埃文·惠顿(Evan Whitton)，澳大利亚记者，在线法律杂志《查士丁尼》的专栏作家。曾任《国家时报》编辑(1978～1981)、《悉尼先驱晨报》和《昆士兰大学新闻读者》杂志首席记者和驻欧洲记者。五次荣获澳大利亚沃克利新闻奖，并且因揭露司法腐败而荣获1983年度“勇敢与创新”记者称号。著作有《棘手之事》(Can of Worms)(1986)、《惊人场面》(Amazing Scenes)(1987)、《乡巴佬独裁者》(The Hillbilly Dictator...(展开全部)

What does it mean to assert or deny the existence of a legal system? How can one determine whether a given law belongs to a certain legal system? What kind of structure do these systems have, that is--what necessary relations obtain between their laws? The examination of these problems in this volume leads to a new approach to traditional jurisprudential question, though the co...(展开全部)

约翰·亨利·梅利曼，美国著名比较法学家，美国斯坦福大学斯韦策荣休讲座教授及艺术系荣休教授。纽约大学法律科学博士及法学硕士，圣母大学法律博士。1953年起任教于斯坦福大学法学院，1960年起任教授，1971年起任讲座教授。1980年起兼任斯坦大学艺术系教授。主要研究领域为比较法学及艺术与法律。

约翰·亨利·梅利曼，美国著名比较法学家，美国斯坦福大学斯韦策荣休讲座教授及艺术系荣休教授。纽约大学法律科学博士及法学硕士，圣母大学法律博士。1953年起任教于斯坦福大学法学院，1960年起任教授，1971年起任讲座教授。1980年起兼任斯坦大学艺术系教授。主要研究领域为比较法学及艺术与法律。

What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining guidance from moral insight. In a legal context, we are cast as 'character masks' (Marx), for example, as 'buyer' and 'seller'...(展开全部)

What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining guidance from moral insight. In a legal context, we are cast as 'character masks' (Marx), for example, as 'buyer' and 'seller'...(展开全部)

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanatio...(展开全部)

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanatio...(展开全部)