A Short History of Western Legal Theory

Tells all in concise manner.

We have Lloyds on Jurisprudence. This is excellent though I would NOT recommend reading it (if one could of course), cover to cover. This is good, but when I did Jurisprudence our lecturer for all his M.Jur qualification, poor at explaining how to think like a Philosopher. He could have started by a proper skeleton of the subject and recommending this text to read (as it can be read very easily, possibly in summer holidays - and Jurisprudence is usually a Third Year Degree Subject after all). Perhaps I would have understood then, Utilitarianism and on the back of this, The Hart / Devlin Debate and Hart's Concept of Law.The great thing is the topics lead into one another naturally and stretch forward as far as fairly modern 20th Century Jurisprudence.I have to say a must for me and anyone really wanting to understand 'Law'.

A must for any lawyer. Puts the law into social and political context. Also great for quotes!