Author: Cairns, Huntington
Title: The Theory of Legal Science
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ.of North Carolina Press, 1941. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, viii,155 pp. Some rubbing. In a torn & lightly soiled dustwrapper. Good. ¶ Contents: The Theory of Jurisprudence: Present-Day American Legal Thought; Jurisprudence as a Social Science; The Social Basis of Law: The Meaning of Order; Order & the Appearance of Law; The Theory of States; The Formation of Law: Invention; Communication; Social Heredity; The Principle of Disorder; The Inventive Process: The Theory of Forces; Causation; Other Theories; The Method of Legal Science: Hypothesis & Verification; Concept &Fact; The Legal Proposition & Legal Science; The Field of Investigation: The Nature of the Problem; The Character of Change; Legal Theories of Change;The Task of Classification; The Elements of the Legal Structure; The Nature of Legal Change: Activity & Relations; The Description of Activity; The System of Legal Relations; Ideal Types; The Relations of Orders: Monistic Causality; Functional Dependence; The Theory of Equilibrium; The Valuation of Legal Science: Knowledge; Social Welfare; The Valuation of Values.

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