About this book
This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings over sixty years in the context of three continents and addresses the complexities of decolonisation, the troubles in Belfast, the contextual turn in legal studies, rethinking evidence and the implications of globalisation which have been central to his life and research. In propounding his original views as an enthusiastic self-styled 'legal nationalist', Twining maps his ideas of law as a unique discipline, which pervades all spheres of social and political life while combining theory and practice, concepts and values, facts and rules in uniquely fascinating ways. Addressed to academic lawyers generally and to other non-specialists, this story brings out the importance and fascinations of a discipline that has changed, expanded and diversified in the post-War years, with an eye to its future development and potential.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Jurisprudence: a personal view
- 2 Childhood and schooling (1934–52)
- 3 Oxford and after (1952–7)
- 4 University of Chicago I (1957–8)
- 5 Khartoum (1958–61)
- 6 Dar es Salaam (1961–5)
- 7 Llewellyn again: American interludes (Chicago 1963–4, Yale 1965, Philadelphia 1971)
- 8 The Queen’s University Belfast (1966–72)
- 9 Normative Jurisprudence
- 10 Standpoint, questioning and ‘thinking like a lawyer’
- 11 Social and legal rules
- 12 Warwick (1972–82)
- 13 Jurisprudence, law in context, realism and doctrine
- Plates
- 14 Rethinking Evidence
- 15 Bentham’s College (1983–99)
- 16 Four contrasting relationships (Bentham, Dworkin, MacCormick, Anderson)
- 17 Legal Education
- 18 Globalisation and Law
- 19 General Jurisprudence
- 20 ‘R/retirement’
- Notes on the plates
- Notes to the text
- Index