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Jurisprudence for a Free Society:Studies in Law, Science and Policy (New Haven Studies in International Law and World Public Order)

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I would save some money and order the paperback edition which comes in two volumes at around eighty dollars. It is an excellent breakdown of how to approach social/legal problems by using various intellectual tasks. The volumes start with a brief background on earlier juriprudential schools of thought that the Lasswell and McDougal Jurisprudence grew out of and then goes on to discuss how one must take stock of one's subjectivity when studying any problem; how one must clarify the object of one's observations; how onw must look at the larger context of how any problem fits into its social contexts; what are the current trends in decision-making regarding the problem; and what might be some future projections on how to solve the problem. The authors teach the core questions that any problem-solver must explore: who are the players involved? what are their various perspectives? is there a constitutive order within which these players operate? what are the! ! ir bases of power? For further explanation of the complex theories put forth in these volumes look for literature by Winston Nagan, Richard Falk, Richard Schwartz, and Anthony Kronman.