Preface
Chapter One Legal Theory and Legal Methodology
1. What Is Jurisprudence7
2. Why Study Jurisprudence?
3. Controversy over Legal Methods
3.1 The rejection of method
3.2 Methodological heteronomy
3.3 Methodological autonomy
3.4 Summary and conclusion
Review Questions
Chapter Two Legal Positivism: An Overview
l. A Basic Definition
1.1 Meaning
1.2 Classification
1.3 Approach
1.4 Challenge
2. Two Disputes
2.1 The conceptual dispute over
validity and obligation
2.2 The empirical dispute about
resisting evil law
3. Three Theses
3.1 The validity thesis
3.2 The separation thesis
3.3 The legal obligation thesis
Review Questions
Chapter Three: deremy Bentham and Utilitarian
Jurisprudence.
1. Introduction