Getting Real or Staying Positive: Legal Realism(s), Legal Positivism and the Prospects of Naturalism in Jurisprudence

Legal Positivism : Its Scope and Limitations

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences

Getting involved in the legal system: choice or chance?

The legal system and the laboratory are becoming involved with each other on a daily basis today and the technologist is, willingly or unwillingly, being drawn into this unfamiliar arena. This article will explain some of the manner by which a part of that arena operates, specifically the trial courts. Whether civil or criminal, these courts are governed by rules and methods of operation for th...

Action-based Jurisprudence: Praxeological Legal Theory in Relation to Economic Theory, Ethics, and Legal Practice

THEORIZING ABOUT LAW and legal concepts falls under the field of jurisprudence, as do certain aspects of the assessment of legal institutions, procedures, and processes. Theorists in this field are typically described as working within various schools of thought, principally: natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, and critical legal studies. An alternative to these schools has been emerg...

Basic and legal analysis of the justification or non-justification of killing in defense of property

Justifying or not justifying killing in defense of property has always been a challenging issue for jurists Western jurists have studied such killing in the light of the principle of proportionalit. . That is,whether there is a balance and proportionality between defensive action - killing aggressor- and aggressive action - attacking property – or not. based on this principle, some believe that...