An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

Roscoe Pound

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Roscoe Pound's Yale lectures on the questions every legal system must answer: what law is for, how judges apply it, and how it handles property, contract and liability. A clear entry point to jurisprudence from one of its most influential teachers.

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