Includes index.

Contents: Studying jurisprudence -- Natural law -- Bentham, Austin and classical english positivism -- The pure theory of law -- Modern trends in analytical jurisprudence -- Theories of justice -- Dworkin and interpretivism -- Sociological jurisprudence and the sociology of law -- American realism -- The Scandinavian realists -- Historical and anthropological jurisprudence -- Marxist theories of law and state -- Critical legal studies -- Feminist jurisprudence -- Postmodernist jurisprudence -- Critical race theory -- The philosophy of human rights -- Globalization and the legal order -- Law, language and literature -- Theories of adjudication.