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。

What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of interest to legal theorists and philosophers of law. They are pressing issues for practising lawyers, and a matte...(展开全部)

What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of interest to legal theorists and philosophers of law. They are pressing issues for practising lawyers, and a matte...(展开全部)

伊恩•沃德（Ian Ward）：英国纽卡斯尔大学法学院教授，剑桥大学博士，主治法律、文学和历史的交叉学科研究，笔耕颇勤，除本书外，著有《康德主义、后现代主义和法律批判思想》（Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought，Springer，2010年），《法律•文本•恐怖》（Law, Text, Terror，剑桥大学出版社，2009年），《欧洲法批判指南》（A Critical Introduction to European Law，剑桥大学出版社，2009年），《法律与文学》（Law and Literature，2008年），《英国宪制：神话与现实》（The English Constitution : Myths and Realities，牛津大学出版社，2004年），《正义、人道...(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)