Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence: a Collaborative Work

This volume of essays, though primarily designed for students of law, will also attract a wide audience among philosophers and those interested in political theory. Members of the Faculty of Law at Oxford have combined to explore such central topics as negligence and mens rea, ownership, possession, voluntary and involuntary acts, sovereignty, the rule of law, justiciability, motive, and the doctrine of precedent. These topics have hitherto usually been treated simply as one part of a comprehensive treatise on jurisprudence by a single author; readers will find their treatment in detail by a number of different writers both stimulating and original.