By Austin John

The Province of Jurisprudence Determined is of course the best-Known part of Austin`s work but he himself conceived it as ` a merely prefatory though necessary and inevitable part` of the Lectures and accordingly when he published it in I832 he printed with it an elaborate Outline of the full course. It is important for a just assessment both of the value of Austin`s ideas and of his influence to remember the `prefatory` character he attributed to The province of Jurisprudence Determined and his insistence that the science of `general Jurisprudence` consisted in the clarification and arrangement of fundamental legal notions. His belief that there were certain `principles, notions and distinctions` which were `necessarily` part of his doctrines as anything in The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. What these principles, notions and distinctions were and in what sense Austin thought them necessary can be best understood from the essay On the Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence with which he began his lectures but which was not published till I863. This conveys the character of the main lectures in a shorter and less technical form than the Outline and is reprinted here.

Published Year: 2005 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 81-7534-479-2 Publisher: Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. No of Pages: 427 Our Price: India. Rs. 325.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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