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    <dateIssued>c2005</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>"Understanding Jurisprudence provides a lucid introduction to the absorbing and challenging field of legal theory. Without avoiding the complexities and subtleties of the subject, Raymond Wacks provides an illuminating guide to the central questions of legal theory."--Jacket</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Natural law -- Classical legal positivism -- Modern legal positivism -- Law as interpretation -- Law and morality -- Legal realism -- Law and social theory -- Justice -- Rights -- Feminist and critical race theory -- Critical legal theory.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Raymond Wacks.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Jurisprudence</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">340 WAC</classification>
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