Table of Contents

A Note on the Author.- General Editor’s Preface to Volumes 11 and 12 of the Treatise.- Preface to Volume 11.- Acknowledgements .- Part I – Prologue.- Chapter 1 - Analytic Jurisprudence Established.- Chapter 2 - Justice Holmes: A New Path for American Jurisprudence.- Chapter 3 - Realism and Reaction.- Chapter 4 - Implicit Law and Principles of Legality.- Chapter 5 - Economic Jurisprudence.- Chapter 6 - Critical Jurisprudence and the Rule of Law.- Chapter 7 - Hart’s Critical Positivism.- Chapter 8 - Positivism Extended: Institutions, Sources, Authority, and Law and Moral Reasoning.- Chapter 9 - Positivism Challenged: Interpretation, Integrity, and Law.- Chapter 10 - The Incorporation Debate.- Chapter 11 - Conventions and the Foundations of Law.- Chapter 12 - Analytic Jurisprudence Confronted.- Chapter 13 - Concluding Note.- Bibliography.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Names.

About the Author

Gerald J. Postema has published extensively in legal and political philosophy and ethics. In 2011 he published Legal Philosophy in the 20th Century: The Common Law World, He wrote Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (Clarendon 1986/1989) and edited Racism and the Law (Kluwer 1997); Rationality, Conventions, and the Law (Kluwer 1998); Jeremy Bentham: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Ashgate 2002) and Philosophy and the Law of Torts (CUP 2001). He is associate editor of the 12 volume, Treatise in the Philosophy of Law (Springer 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011). 
A selection of the jurisprudential writings of Sir Matthew Hale will also be published by Oxford University Press under his editorship. Former Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellow, and fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the National Humanities Center, he was editor of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law (1995-2006) and was special issues editor of Law and Philosophy (1996-2001). In fall, 2012, he was awarded the George J. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Art and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

“Gerald Postema surveys developments in the twentieth century.  ... Every thinking lawyer should be informed and stimulated by these books, and as for the iurisperiti, any unthinking lawyers should acquire them in order to stimulate thought.” (Andrew Halpin, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, September, 2017)“The volume is a magisterial achievement, and should serve as a valuable resource for specialists and non-specialists alike for years to come. … the chapters are helpfully written as mostly self-standing expositions of a manageable number of theorists and arguments; the result is that the chapters and subsections are useful essays in their own right, for both research and pedagogical purposes.” (Michael Sevel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015)“A book for sophisticated students of legal theory where one learns more and better what the best 20th century jurisprudential works contained and what they should have said or failed insaying. … Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World is a brilliant book and, for the rest of us incapable of achieving anything like this … it is simply breathtaking.” (Richard Bronaugh, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 27 (2), July, 2014)