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From publisher: Law touches every aspect of our daily lives. This book uncovers the rudiments of law, explaining the concepts, terms, and processes of legal systems in a clear, jargon-free manner, and revealing how the law provides a framework for almost every social, political, and economic activity from the settlement of international disputes to the protection of our personal fredom. The focus is on the Western legal tradition, but the author also...
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Thirteen articles define and defend a theory of law more liberal than the current legal positivism that restricts individual legal rights to those created by political decision or by explicit social practice. The thesis advanced by Dworkin is that people have rights against the state that are prior to those created by legislation.
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"The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies - the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, better grounded empirically, better tailored to social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier."--Jacket.
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